To settle a 2020 class action suit about Chrome’s Incognito mode, Google has agreed to destroy billions of data points it allegedly improperly collected, The Wall Street Journal’s Erin Mulvaney and Miles Kruppa report. In addition, Google has agreed to update disclosures about what it collects in private browsing and to give users the option to disable third-party cookies in that setting. The class action, filed in 2020, accused Google of misleading users about how Chrome tracked the activity of anyone who used the private “Incognito” browsing option. Google spokesman Jose Castaneda said the company is happy to delete “old technical data” and that the data was never associated with an individual or used for any form of personalization.
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