Google will destroy browsing data collected in Chrome's incognito mode. According to the Wall Street JournalIt is one of the commitments made in the collective action agreement.
The commitments of the agreement reached in December 2023 were filed in a San Francisco court on Monday, and it was announced that Google will make changes to end the process, but the details are only now known.
The class action lawsuit appeared in 2020. The plaintiffs argued that data related to website visits in anonymous browsing mode was collected without users' knowledge. They also criticized the text that appeared whenever an anonymous browsing window was opened, as they considered that it did not adequately inform users about the collection of information.
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Nearly four years later, Google has promised to eliminate “billions of data points” and is committed to updating information about the data it collects. It also specifies that it will give users the opportunity to disable the data collection option. biscuit From third parties.
David Boies, the lawyer representing users in this class action lawsuit, says Google will delete and process data “on an unprecedented scale and scope,” citing Wall Street Journal. “This agreement is a historic step toward demanding honesty and accountability from dominant technology companies.”
The class action lawsuit includes millions of Chrome users who have used the anonymous tool since June 2016. Initially, they were demanding $5,000 per user, arguing that California privacy laws had been violated.
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