News Summary

• By Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-manager A consumer privacy lawsuit seeking at least $5 billion in damages over allegations Google tracked users who thought they were browsing the internet privately has been settled..
• “Google has made itself an unaccountable trove of information so detailed and expansive that George Orwell could never have dreamed it,” the orignal court papers claimed..
• The judge in the case confirmed a preliminary agreement to settle the class action lawsuit, originally filed in 2020..
• Lawyers were seeking at least $5,000 for each member of the class that had been tracked by the firm’s Google Analytics or Ad Manager services while not logged into their Google account..
• The”incognito” mode on Google’s Chrome browser still followed users, as emails revealed during the trial proved..
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