Alphabet (GOOGL) Settles Incognito Lawsuit by Deleting Data
GOOGLAlphabet(GOOGL) Zacks Investment Research·2024-04-03 00:26

Alphabet’s (GOOGL) division Google agrees to expunge billions of browsing data in order to settle a consumer privacy lawsuit. The class-action lawsuit, which was filed in 2020, claims that the company collected data secretly from the use of Chrome web browser in a private “incognito” mode by several people across the world. Google was alleged for tracking data on users’ friends, favorite foods, hobbies, shopping habits, and even personal and intimate things. Notably, the terms of the settlement were filed i ...