US_ Appeals Court Revives Case Over Google Chrome Data Collection

THE EPOCH TIMES

Appeals Court Revives Case Over Google Chrome Data Collection

Google users say they did not consent to data being collected.

Google's Chrome browser in an undated file photograph. Andrew Matthews/PA

By Zachary Stieber
8/21/2024 Updated: 8/21/2024


A case against the alleged unauthorized collection of data from Google users has been revived, with a U.S. appeals court ruling that the judge who dismissed the litigation erred in her ruling.

Google Chrome users who say they did not authorize Google to collect data from them will take their case to trial after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled in their favor, pointing to Google’s policies.

Google’s policy notice for Chrome, a widely used web browser, says that personal information gathered by Chrome “won’t be sent to Google unless you choose to store that data in your Google Account by turning on sync,” or synchronization. Users who sued had used Chrome without turning on sync and were surprised to later learn their data had nevertheless been collected.

“Google’s actions are a serious violation of user privacy,” they said in the suit.

Google has not denied collecting data from the users but, in its defense, highlighted its privacy policy, which says in part that “we collect information about the services that you use and how you use them, like when you ... visit a website that uses our advertising services, or view and interact with our ads and content.”

U.S. District Judge Judge Lucy H. Koh rejected Google’s defense. After Koh was elevated to an appeals court and U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers was assigned to the case, Google filed a new request to dismiss the case, highlighting other policies, including a new account creation agreement that says Google collects data from people who use the company’s products.

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