SAN FRANCISCO, April 2 ― Google has agreed to delete a vast trove of search data to settle a suit that it tracked millions of US users who thought they were browsing the...
If a proposed settlement filed yesterday in San Francisco federal court is approved by a judge, Google must 'delete and/or remediate billions of data records' linked to people using the Chrome browser's incognito mode, according to court documents. ― AFP picSAN FRANCISCO, April 2 ― Google has agreed to delete a vast trove of search data to settle a suit that it tracked millions of US users who thought they were browsing the internet privately.
“This settlement is an historic step in requiring dominant technology companies to be honest in their representations to users about how the companies collect and employ user data, and to delete and remediate data collected,” lawyer David Boies said in the filing.A hearing is slated for July 30 before Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who is to decide whether to approve the deal that would let Google avoid a trial in the class-action suit.
“We are happy to delete old technical data that was never associated with an individual and was never used for any form of personalisation.” But internal Google emails brought forward in the lawsuit demonstrated that users using incognito mode were being followed by the search and advertising behemoth for measuring web traffic and selling ads.
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