Google faces $5 billion lawsuit in U.S.
for tracking 'private' internet use
Reuters,
by
Jonathan Stempel
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
6/3/2020 3:59:08 PM
Google was sued on Tuesday in a proposed class action accusing the internet search company of illegally invading the privacy of millions of users by pervasively tracking their internet use through browsers set in “private” mode. The lawsuit seeks at least $5 billion, accusing the Alphabet Inc unit of surreptitiously collecting information about what people view online and where they browse, despite their using what Google calls Incognito mode.(Snip) This helps Google learn about users’ friends, hobbies, favorite foods, shopping habits, and even the “most intimate and potentially embarrassing things” they search for online, the complaint said. Google “cannot continue to engage in the covert
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Plex 6/3/2020 4:34:01 PM (No. 431167)
DuckDuckGo
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Ribicon 6/3/2020 4:58:04 PM (No. 431205)
DuckDuckGo searches are a start, but they do nothing to stop the tracking cookies placed without consent on our computers by "ads" from Google, Amazon, Adobe, Facebook, and many others.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 6/3/2020 5:06:28 PM (No. 431228)
The Goog makes $5B in a few hours so no problem with that.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
LeeBertie 6/3/2020 5:08:28 PM (No. 431232)
VPN
Delete cookies upon closing.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
chumley 6/3/2020 5:21:00 PM (No. 431249)
VPN is good. Add to it the Tor browser and you are as about as invisible as it gets. With Tor you can access the dark web, though I do not recommend it for the faint of heart.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 6/3/2020 5:30:50 PM (No. 431272)
Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha ha. (As if anybody had the balls to peep up Google's skirt!)
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 6/3/2020 6:01:14 PM (No. 431307)
Google is evil.
Friends don't let friends use Google. Bing has a beautiful picture every day, and is just as good a search engine.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 6/3/2020 6:27:00 PM (No. 431333)
#5, except that using Tor attracts attention to yourself. Hiding in plain sight with a VPN is more likely to provide actual anonymity compared to being so "armored up" as to attract extra attention.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
M Stuart 6/3/2020 7:39:31 PM (No. 431408)
Sue them into oblivion! These people are terrible. We need "Internet Bill of Rights" in order to be treated fairly.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
anniebc 6/3/2020 8:57:02 PM (No. 431477)
Five billion is not enough.
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DuckDuckGo! Having spent 30 years in IT, I left Apple, Microsoft and Google years ago! They are tracking everything you do and everywhere you go and everything you say...at all times!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Trigger2 6/4/2020 4:07:26 AM (No. 431693)
Who do I have to bribe to be on the jury? Google?
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DuckDuckGo
Brave browser set to delete all history and cookies on exit
Change your screen size setting periodically
The most pernicious are school related programs necessary due to this fake pandemic. All google garbage.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/4/2020 7:57:55 AM (No. 431825)
OP is correct, it's all about the money and there is billions to be made on personal information. The only way to combat it is to offer only false information.
I live in a different state every few months and my birthday changes as often as a 39 year old woman. Sometimes I confuse myself.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
bpl40 6/4/2020 7:59:07 AM (No. 431828)
These are corrupt scoundrels. The suit should be $50 billion. I use Start Page for the last several years.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 6/4/2020 8:22:39 AM (No. 431868)
It appears that a law firm is the Plaintiff. Even if google lost, no way that a $5 award would find its way beyond the law firm. Always and constantly delete your cookies.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 6/4/2020 8:29:46 AM (No. 431878)
That's $5 billion.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
gone2pot 6/4/2020 8:30:46 AM (No. 431881)
Five billion? Google has that under their couch cushions but they're still upset over at the Goog since the FISA court judges don't have to pay a dime for doing the exact same thing, AND FISC is still doing it at an after-burner pace.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Red Ghost 6/4/2020 9:16:59 AM (No. 431956)
I'd love to see these companies Facebook, Instagram etc., sued into bankruptcy just like drug companies have been. Drug companies at least serve a purpose. What purpose does Google serve, other than to waste people's time. Sue the bast--ds.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Bohallx 6/4/2020 12:02:34 PM (No. 432228)
Of course Google.com (Alphabet) spies on the users for the purpose of providing lewd entertainment to the sexually deviant staff members at the highest level.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
DrOstrow 6/4/2020 12:27:10 PM (No. 432271)
Take a jigger of ignorance ( in the truest sense of the word ),
add a shot of trust ( they - google etc. - are just providing a service ! ).
add 2 jiggers of naivety ( if you're not doing anything wrong, why do you care ? )
shake well with some 'gee, wow, look at that, I GOTTA HAVE one of those' ( ALexa for starters ! )
and now you have our current situation.
I trust NONE of them. ANY so-called Social Media is avoided like a bucket of rattle snakes. A lifetime of DP ( it's not Information Technology - it's Data Processing ! ) has taught me that NOTHING is safe on ANY computer anywhere. Started hearing about 'data mining' in the late 80's. What is happening now does not surprise me in the slightest. I do EVERTHING I can think of to safeguard my privacy. Alex in my home - NOT ON YOUR LIFE.
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Everyone should be using strong VPNs. To NOT be using these in this day and age, for EVERY bit of your interactions online, be they business or personal, is akin to leaving your front door open and allowing anyone in. We use military-grade VPNs, far above bank encryption, and it is never the same IP and sometimes changed out during sessions. Everything is dumped and CCleaned at end of session. Using the web w no VPN between any provider or hotspot is just asking for so much bad happen. Deleting cookies alone does NOT secure you - cookies are nothing compared to the gold mine otherwise there. CCleaner, Malwarebytes wipe - do this daily, if not several times a day.
A good read, even for those who know - Kevin Mitnick (his name should ring some bells) - "The Art of Invisibility." And, Ed Snowden's "Permanent Record" - will convince you.
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Surveilling people should have been banned from the outset; would be nice if this gains traction, but there's a lot of money to be made and who knows who buys the data. Same as Google, Facebook also engages in such data mining, even on people who do not use their products.