Google will delete billions of browsing records to settle privacy lawsuit: court filing

Google will destroy users' browsing data to settle a $5 billion privacy lawsuit about its "incognito" browsing, according to federal court filings.Advertisement The 2020 class action lawsuit accused the search engine of illegally collecting millions of users' data without their knowledge while they used incognito mode. The suit alleged that Google was secretly amassing data from users when they thought their browsing was private.The settlement was first announced last December, but the specific details of ...