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Class-Action Lawsuit Against Google's Incognito Mode

12 pointsby talonxabout 1 year ago

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bradley13about 1 year ago
Key points of the settlement, taken from the court document. Note: IANAL, these are just what seem important to me:<p>- Google must rewrite its disclosures to tell users that it collects private browsing data.<p>- For ... data pre-dating the disclosure changes, Google must delete or remediate all entries that might contain users&#x27; at-issue private browsing data. [&quot;remediate&quot; is later defined as &quot;delete information that makes private browsing data identifying&quot;.]<p>- Google must maintain [the] default of blocking third-party cookies within Incognito mode for five years.<p>- Google must delete all four of the identified private browsing detection bits. These were the detection bits that Google was sanctioned for concealing during discovery. Google has further agreed to no longer ... track any private browsing.<p>So: Google gets rapped on the knuckles, but suffers no real damages from their behavior beyond loss of the data. Which isn&#x27;t even a complete loss, because (a) the data only has to be &quot;remediated&quot;, and (b) there is nothing stopping them from mining whatever they want from the data before doing that.