Google fesses up to spying on people's browsing habits in Chrome's not-so-Incognito mode, promising to destroy billions of records tracking U.S. citizens. Sadly it was not out of the goodness of their electric hearts - it took a formidable class action lawsuit (that they'd probably already prepared for):
https://apnews.com/article/google-chrome-privacy-lawsuit-settlement-203cc5063f1a1d4013de1900d9376814 #infosec #privacy
Julian Oliver /
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2024-04-02 06:23:06
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