Texas, Indiana, Washington State and the District of Columbia sued Alphabet Inc's Google on Monday over what they called deceptive location-tracking practices that invade users’ privacy.

"Google falsely led consumers to believe that changing their account and device settings would allow customers to protect their privacy and control what personal data the company could access," Washington, DC, Attorney General Karl Racine's office said in a statement.

Yet Google "continues to systematically surveil customers...