Alphabet Inc.\u2019s Google defeated a privacy lawsuit by consumers who accused the company of snooping on them even after they opted out of sharing their web activity.<\/p>\n
US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers on Monday dismissed claims that Google tracked users\u2019 personal information, including IP addresses and browsing history, if they chose not to \u201cSync\u201d their Google accounts with Chrome \u2014 and even if they didn\u2019t have an account.<\/p>\n
\u201cGoogle adequately disclosed, and plaintiffs consented to, the collection of the at-issue data,\u201d Rogers wrote in dismissing the suit.<\/p>\n
Rogers also ruled on another Chrome privacy case involving the \u201cIncognito Mode\u201d feature that lets people surf the web privately.<\/p>\n
She let tens of millions of Google users to join the suit launched by a handful of consumers claiming that the search giant scoops up data even when \u201cIncognito Mode\u201d is turned on.<\/p>\n
The users can\u2019t seek monetary compensation though, only relief that would block the company from further collecting private browsing information and to push it to delete previously gathered data.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for Google didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n
Google faces a raft of privacy suits brought by states including Arizona and consumers as well as intense scrutiny by lawmakers over its data-gathering practices.<\/p>\n
The technology giant has said that in 2024 it will eliminate third-party cookies that help advertisers keep tabs on consumers\u2019 web activity and won\u2019t employ alternative methods to track individuals.<\/p>\n
In a bid to keep the Incognito case from expanding, Google had argued in a court filing that many potential class members knew about the company\u2019s data collection and consented to it.<\/p>\n
Court filings revealed a\u00a0paper trail<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0highlighting frustration among Google\u2019s employees over Incognito Mode\u2019s branding, including a 2021 email from the company\u2019s marketing head telling Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai that the feature \u201cisn\u2019t truly private.\u201d<\/p>\n Google has fended off two attempts by plaintiffs to force Pichai to submit to questioning under oath.<\/p>\n US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers on Monday dismissed claims that Google tracked users\u2019 personal information, including IP addresses and browsing history, if they chose not to \u201cSync\u201d their Google accounts with Chrome \u2014 and even if they didn\u2019t have an account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341034,"featured_media":458737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[167,1137,75158,437,80198],"class_list":["post-473891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-google","tag-google-chrome","tag-online-tracking","tag-privacy","tag-third-party-cookies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read: Google Chrome update lowers memory usage and battery consumption<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"