{"id":13959,"date":"2024-04-01T21:37:14","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T19:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/01\/google-to-destroy-billions-of-private-browsing-records-to-settle-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2024-04-01T21:37:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T19:37:14","slug":"google-to-destroy-billions-of-private-browsing-records-to-settle-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/01\/google-to-destroy-billions-of-private-browsing-records-to-settle-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Google to destroy billions of private browsing records to settle lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suit claimed tech giant tracked activity of people who thought they were privately using its Chrome browser\u2019s incognito mode<\/p>\n<p>Google agreed to destroy billions of records to settle a lawsuit claiming it secretly tracked the internet use of people who thought they were browsing privately in its Chrome browser\u2019s incognito mode.<\/p>\n<p>Users alleged that Google\u2019s analytics, cookies and apps let the Alphabet unit improperly track people who set Google\u2019s Chrome browser to \u201cincognito\u201d mode and other browsers to \u201cprivate\u201d browsing mode.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/apr\/01\/google-destroying-browsing-data-privacy-lawsuit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/8aaa8b1f5a2e0c5ae3acb67be28b3483e68afbbd\/0_0_5006_3005\/master\/5006.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=7c057eb2dcfa9eecd9c7982ce2ca2ddc\" title=\"Google to destroy billions of private browsing records to settle lawsuit\" \/>Suit claimed tech giant tracked activity of people who thought they were privately using its Chrome browser\u2019s incognito mode<br \/>\nGoogle agreed to destroy billions of records to settle a lawsuit claiming it secretly tracked the internet use of people who thought they were browsing privately in its Chrome browser\u2019s incognito mode.<br \/>\nUsers alleged that Google\u2019s analytics, cookies and apps let the Alphabet unit improperly track people who set Google\u2019s Chrome browser to \u201cincognito\u201d mode and other browsers to \u201cprivate\u201d browsing mode. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suit claimed tech giant tracked activity of people who thought they were privately using its Chrome browser\u2019s incognito mode Google agreed to destroy billions of records to settle a lawsuit claiming it secretly tracked the internet use of people who thought they were browsing privately in its Chrome browser\u2019s incognito mode. Users alleged that Google\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/01\/google-to-destroy-billions-of-private-browsing-records-to-settle-lawsuit\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google to destroy billions of private browsing records to settle lawsuit<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13959"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}