Google, one of the biggest tech giants globally, has agreed that it will pay $5 billion as a settlement in the lawsuit, which claimed that the company secretly tracks how millions of people surf the Internet, thinking they were browsing privately.
Reuters disclosed this, which revealed that U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, California, extended the trial to February 5, 2024, in the proposed class action on hold on Thursday, after defendants of Google and consumers said they had reached a preliminary settlement.
The lawsuit against Google sought at least $5 billion if won—settlement terms were not disclosed. Still, lawyers said they agreed to a binding term sheet through mediation and expected to present a formal settlement for court approval by February 24, 2024.
The Consumers’ Complaints
The plaintiff said that Google’s analytics, cookies, and apps let the Alphabet unit track their activity even when they set Google’s Chrome browser to “Incognito” mode and other browsers to “private” browsing mode.Read more: https://www.investingport.com/will-the-5-billion-lawsuit-stop-google-from-tracking-users-browsing/