Netizens who say Google continued to track them around the web even when using Chrome's incognito mode can proceed with their privacy lawsuit against the internet giant, a judge has ruled.
The decision by Judge Lucy Koh, based in a San Jose federal district court just down the road from Google HQ, once again sees the internet titan and its data-snaffling policies under the microscope. Specifically, the judge denied Google’s motion to dismiss the class-action-seeking lawsuit, stating: “The court concludes that Google did not notify users that Google engages in the alleged data collection while the user is in private browsing mode.”
The plaintiffs in the case – Chasom Brown, Maria Nguyen, William Byatt, Jeremy Davis, and Christopher Castillo – complain that people who used Chrome's incognito mode expected to be just that – incognito – but in reality Google still observed them to provide targeted advertising; Google’s main revenue s ..
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