Alphabet Inc.’s Google lost its bid to end a lawsuit by the State of Arizona on Jan. 25 that alleged it deceived users in order to access their location data. The state’s lawsuit, filed by Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, alleged that Google had used unfair and deceptive practices to obtain users’ location data, which it secretly exploited for targeted advertising. Judge Timothy Thomason of Arizona, said that the allegations that the tech giant deceived users with unclear smartphone location tracking settings should be weighed by a jury. The decision came a day after the state attorneys general of Washington, Indiana, Texas, and Washington D.C. sued Google on similar grounds that the company engaged in duplicitous tactics to access user data. The Arizona complaint points to the fact that users of Google’s Android smartphones who disabled the location history features in their settings still had their location tracking saved to their Google account through their web app and …