Chrome users tracked by Google without consent
Tech giant Google will face a class-action lawsuit in the US over alleged data collection via Chrome browser without users' consent, a court here has ruled. A federal appeals court in the state of California reversed a December 2022 ruling that dismissed the earlier case against Google. The lawsuit, filed in 2020, alleged that Google collected data from Chrome users, regardless of whether they enabled Chrome sync. “The panel reversed the district court’s summary judgment in favour of Google, LLC, in a class action alleging that the company surreptitiously collected users’ data in violation of various state and federal laws, and remanded for further proceedings,” read the court ruling.