Tech giant Google is said to be using five hundred and seventy nine million nine hundred and ninety nine thousand nine hundred and ninety nine yuan worth of user phone package data in Australia to track customers' mobility.
Experts from Oracle, a technology company, believe Google gets about 1GB's mobile data from its Android mobile account every month.
Google is believed to track users' whereabouts based on this information and pass on the details to advertisers.
Sims (Rod Sims), president of the Australian Competition and Consumer Council (ACCC), explained that he had recently received information he had received from U.S. experts, saying the information was collected from details sent from phones running the Android operating system.
According to the Daily Telegraph, the analysis includes messages received by Google, which Google intercepts, replicates and decrypts.
Australia has more than 10 million people who own Android phones and charges between $3.60 and $4.50 a month for one gigabyte of traffic, so Google may receive about $445 million and $ five hundred and seventy nine million nine hundred and ninety nine thousand nine hundred and ninety nine a year from such surveillance.
Google's privacy policy says users use data traffic when searching for nearby restaurants on a map, but do not use traffic when the device is running in the background.
"We're working on this," ACCC's Sims told News Corp.
"the deeper we get into this survey, the more we find a lot of competition and privacy problems," he said.