It’s not just governments. Video game maker Epic and dating app owner Match Group are suing google , alleging anti-competitive behavior in the way it runs its app store. The Republican National Committee is suing Google for sending politicians’ emails straight to spam folders.
Here’s another one to add to the list. On October 25, a California judge was deliberating whether to allow a class action lawsuit representing millions of Google users to proceed. A consumer group alleges that the company misled people about the data it collected when they used private browsing modes in both Google’s Chrome web browser and browsers made by other companies like Apple and Mozilla.
The lawyers leading the lawsuit have already amassed a slew of internal Google emails that they say show how company executives have known for years that what the company calls “incognito mode” is anything but incognito. Private browsing modes generally block tracking cookies, small pieces of code that follow people across the Internet by recording their activity.
But Google still recorded information about people using private mode whenever they visited websites that had installed popular Google software used to serve ads or measure traffic, the lawsuit alleges.
