Google Settles $5B Lawsuit Over “Incognito” Browser

Business Insider reports:

On Thursday, Google agreed to settle a $5 billion class-action privacy lawsuit alleging that it spied on people who used the “incognito” mode in its Chrome browser to track their internet use.

The lawsuit filed in 2020 claimed Google misled users into believing that it wouldn’t track their internet activities while using incognito mode.

The suit argued that Google’s advertising technologies and third-party websites that used Google Analytics or Google Ad Manager continued to catalog details of users’ site visits and activities despite their use of supposedly “private” browsing, sending that information back to Google servers.

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— Business Insider (@BusinessInsider) December 30, 2023