Google has agreed to settle a lawsuit claiming the search engine giant secretly tracked millions of users’ internet use, despite believing they were browsing in incognito mode.
The lawsuit, which had sought $5 billion, was filed in 2020 in the U.S. District Court Northern District of California and covered “millions” of Google users, seeking damages in the amount of $5,000 per user, or three times actual damages, whichever is greater.
Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc. is accused of illegally collecting information about what people are viewing online and where they are doing their browsing, through various applications and website plug-ins, including Google Analytics and Google Ad Manager.
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