I’m shocked. SHOCKED I tell you! Who could have seen sweet old Google doing something like this!
Add a zero to the right, that would be awesome
$5 billion Google lawsuit over ‘incognito mode’ tracking moves a step closer to trial 0
Like this?
Probably because it’s not newsworthy as it’s systematic, for instance Facebook and Googke have had to pay ever ibcreasing fines for GDPR violation, now exceeding a billion dollar, and get in line with the regulation, or get forbidden to opperate in the EU.
They have been getting those fines for years with a delay of a couple of months to pay them. They would have been barred from the EU long ago if they had not paid them.
It’s like the governments benefits over these big tech companies breaking the laws set by the government.
Lol you make it look like the government is keeping the money. The population is benefitting from fines imposed on companies violating the law, what’s odd about this?
It’s a closed browser from a data mining company, of course it kept on mining the user. The “The user didn’t want this tracked” is probably juicy information to mark what they were looking at with.
This will be an interesting case.
It’s very unlikely this lawsuit’s going to come to anything. Just summary judgment was denied.
Supposing Google didn’t make a web browser, it would have no liability here.
And if Google only made a web browser and didn’t control an analytics platform it also have no liability here.
The theory is the incognito mode in a browser which is something of an industry standard term. Should that alone compel the other parts of Google to honor incognito in terms of not tracking, even though it has nothing to do if the browser client capabilities. I.e. Google analytics has no obligation to not track a Firefox browser or a Safari browser that’s In cognito mode. In fact it shouldn’t even be aware it’s an incognito. Google analytics has no obligation to not track a Firefox browser or a Safari browser that’s In cognito mode. In fact it shouldn’t even be aware it’s an incognito.
My guess is just a bunch of scary letters going back and forth, and Google is going to fight it to the death. And maybe lawyers fees will get paid maybe
