In the latest version of a lawsuit against Google from Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, the Big Tech giant allegedly tracked user location via third-party apps — including when devices were connected to WiFi, even if the user had switched location services off.

According to a report by the AZ Mirror, employees of Google shared concerns that media outlets, such as The New York Times, would discover the truth.

"So there is no way to give a third party app your location and not Google?" a Google employee is quoted as saying in the complaint in a previously redacted section, as reported by the AZ Mirror. "This doesn't sound like something we would want on the front page of the NYT."