Google's Chrome has long featured the ability to launch the browser in incognito mode, offering a seemingly blank slate for your Internet browsing, away from the usual cookies, forms, and web history. But that apparently didn't mean Google wasn't watching where you browsed.
The company faced a lawsuit in 2020 that accused it of tracking Chrome users' activities even when they used incognito mode. Google has now agreed to settle the lawsuit, which originally sought $5 billion in damages, after failing to get the lawsuit dismissed.
The plaintiffs said Google used tools such as its Analytics product, applications and browser add-ons to monitor users. By tracking someone on Incognito, the company falsely led people to believe that they could control the information they were willing to share with them.
Plaintiffs in the lawsuit revealed internal emails purportedly showing conversations between Google executives that demonstrated the company monitored use of the Incognito browser to sell ads and track web traffic. Which sounds like something Google would do. According Reuters and Washington PostNeither party has made public the details of the agreement.
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