Google has agreed to pay $60m in penalties flowing from a long-running court fight with the Australian competition watchdog over the misleading of users on the collection of personal location data.

In April last year, the federal court found Google breached consumer laws by misleading some local users into thinking the company was not collecting personal data about their location via mobile devices with Android operating systems.

The case revolved around whether it was sufficiently clear Google would still collect and access location data when a user’s location history was set to “off” but their web and app activity was “on” and one of its apps was used.

The company was also found to be in breach of two other consumer laws concerning conduct liable to mislead the public and making misleading representations about a service’s performance characteristics.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission at the time called the judgment a clear message to digital platforms to be upfront with consumers about what is happening with their data.

On Friday, a brief federal court hearing was told a $60m penalty was agreed as “fair and reasonable” between the parties and that a joint submission had been submitted to Justice Thomas Thawley.

The court heard possible issues still in play were whether the penalty made future conduct “economically irrational” and if the penalty was suitable.

Thawley said he was satisfied the fine was in an appropriate range and thanked the parties before adjourning the case until later on Friday.

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