Google has agreed to delete “a trove of data that reflects millions of users’ web-browsing histories”, the WSJ reports today, as part of a settlement of a class action lawsuit that was filed back in 2020. The settlement details were filed today in San Francisco federal court, revealing that Google has agreed to destroy “billions of data points” that the lawsuit alleged it improperly collected while Chrome users were browsing in Incognito mode.
The entire class action lawsuit was about just that, alleging that Google mislead Chrome users about how the browser tracked their activity in…
