Search engine giants, Google is making moves to destroy “billions of data points” it improperly collected from Chrome’s Incognito mode—a move that was part of a settlement reached last December in a $5 billion privacy lawsuit.
Google will also update its data collection disclaimers and keep an option in place that prevents Chrome’s third-party cookies by default for the following five years after erasing the data points.
The 2020 class-action complaint accused Google of deceiving Chrome users about how private Incognito browsing actually is, in relation to the browser’s surveillance of Incognito users.
