Google to delete incognito search data to end privacy suit

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Google has agreed to delete a vast trove of search data to settle a suit that it tracked millions of US users who thought they were browsing the internet privately.

If a proposed settlement filed Monday in San Francisco federal court is approved by a judge, Google must"delete and/or remediate billions of data records" linked to"This settlement is an historic step in requiring dominant technology companies to be honest in their representations to users about how the companies collect and employ user data, and to delete and remediate data collected," lawyer David Boies said in the filing.

"We are happy to delete old technical data that was never associated with an individual and was never used for any form of personalization."

Source: Tech Daily Report (techdailyreport.net)

 

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