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Google Chrome’s Incognito Mode is at the forefront of a $5 billion class-action lawsuit which alleges users are being tracked during private browsing sessions. The lawsuit alleges Google is in violation of wiretapping and privacy laws for intercepting, tracking, and collecting communications when Chrome’s Incognito mode is in use. Google has been trying to get the lawsuit dismissed since it was filed last June. A federal judge ruled the lawsuit must go forward. In the judge’s ruling… Source link

Google is under fire for information it allegedly collects from users in incognito mode. Getty Images … Source link

GlobeNewswire Life360, Inc. Added to S&P/ASX 300 Index SAN FRANCISCO, March 14, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — via InvestorWire – Life360, Inc. (ASX:360), the leading family safety membership, today announced that it has been added to the S&P/ASX 300 Index in a rebalance resulting from the March quarterly review. The change will be effective at the open of trading on March 22, 2021. The addition to the S&P/ASX 300 Index comes on the heels of Life360’s 2020 Full-Year Results and the company’s… Source link

Bloomberg Trader Arrested as WallStreetBets Phenomenon Finds Echo in Japan (Bloomberg) — A retail investor buys shares in a small company, touts his position on social media and inspires a horde of followers to do the same. The stock price goes to the moon — before crashing back to earth.It’s an all-too-familiar tale to anyone watching the market in 2021, but this wasn’t GameStop Corp. It wasn’t even in America. And it happened in 2018.It was in the Japanese city of Osaka, where a day… Source link

A judge in California ruled Friday that Google has to face a class action lawsuit that claims the search giant secretly collects data from users even when they’re using its private “Incognito” mode, Bloomberg reported. Three users filed a complaint last June alleging Google has a “pervasive data tracking business,” and its tracking persists even if users take steps to protect their private information, such as using incognito mode in Chrome, or private browsing in Safari and… Source link

PHOENIX (KWWL) – A licensed private investigator says a potential suspect in the 1995 abduction and murder of Mason City television anchor Jodi Huisentruit is considering a lawsuit against Google, which currently lists him as the victim’s “killer”. Investigator Steve Ridge says Arizona resident John Vansice and his wife are exploring how the assertion that Vansice is responsible for the murder became part of a prominent ‘Google Knowledge Graph’ as the first entry… Source link

Verizon has defeated a lawsuit brought by former Trump administration advisor Carter Page, who alleged he was defamed in 11 online articles — one that appeared in Yahoo and 10 in the Huffington Post. In a 19-page opinion issued late last week, Delaware Superior Court Judge Craig Karsnitz said Page … Source link

(Bloomberg) — A former U.S. ambassador wants Google to do to Telegram what it did to Parler. Marc Ginsberg sued the Alphabet Inc. unit Monday, asking a California court to require it to remove the Telegram Messenger app from the Google Play Store because it facilitates violence, extremism and anti-Semitism. Telegram, especially in the wake of George Floyd’s killing and the inauguration of Joe Biden as president, has been used to threaten, encourage and coordinate racist violence, claims… Source link

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google has asked a U.S. judge in Texas to transfer an antitrust lawsuit filed by 10 states in December to a court in California, a state that has more relevant witnesses and documents needed by the company, it said. FILE PHOTO: A Google sign is pictured on a Google building in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., October 20, 2020. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/File Photo In December, Texas and nine other states sued Google LLC in a U.S. court… Source link

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google has asked a U.S. judge in Texas to transfer an antitrust lawsuit filed by 10 states in December to a court in California, a state that has more relevant witnesses and documents needed by the company, it said. FILE PHOTO: A Google sign is pictured on a Google building in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., October 20, 2020. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/File Photo In December, Texas and nine other states sued Google LLC in a U.S. court… Source link