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![CDATA[YII-BLOCK-HEAD]]&gt;This article was published on June 4, 2020Google is facing a $5 billion class action lawsuit over tracking Chrome users — even in incognito mode.The lawsuit, which was filed in the federal court in San Jose, California on Tuesday, accuses the company of collecting information about what people view and what pages they visit online despite claiming incognito mode is private, Reuters .The complaint further alleges gathering data through&nbsp;Google “ The complaint seeks compensation of at least $5,000&nbsp;“Google spokesperson&nbsp;Skeptics have long been warning companies like Google and Facebook’s pervasive tracking practices collect data about users even when using incognito mode.Google has also previously been in incognito mode by rival DuckDuckGo — a claim that suggests the company’s private browsing mode isn’t as anonymous as we might think.

![CDATA[YII-BLOCK-HEAD]]&gt;This article was published on June 4, 2020Google is facing a $5 billion class action lawsuit over tracking Chrome users — even in incognito mode.The lawsuit, which was filed in the federal court in San Jose, California on Tuesday, accuses the company of collecting information about what people view and what pages they visit online despite claiming incognito mode is private, Reuters .The complaint further alleges gathering data through&nbsp;Google “ The complaint seeks compensation of at least $5,000&nbsp;“Google spokesperson&nbsp;Skeptics have long been warning...

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