Google employees themselves were confused about the search engine's privacy settings

A trial involving Google and the Arizona attorney general is currently underway.The company is accused of

The use of "deceptive and unscrupulous" methods to collect user data.During the lawsuit, internal Google emails were revealed.They showed that the company's employees themselves were confused about the privacy settings of the search engine.

Prosecutors launched the investigation after an article in the Associated Press that described ways to track the location of Google users and the difficulty of disabling related features.

From internal emails, it became clear that not only users, but even Google employees themselves were confused about their privacy settings.

"I agree with the article.Disabling a location should mean disabling a location, with no exception for this or that case.The current interface looks like it's designed to make this possible, but complicated enough — that people can't figure it out," one of the emails reads.

Some of the employees admitted that they were sure that their location tracking was disabled, but then they suddenly discovered that it was not.

As a result, the prosecutor concluded that even high-ranking Google employees do not understand when and why the company collects location data.