Google facing trial on claims their Chrome browser misled users

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San Francisco's 9th Circuit Court of Appeals threw out a 2022 Federal District Court ruling that had dismissed the original data collection lawsuit. The Court of Appeals says there will be a hearing on claims Chrome misled users on data collection because

the lower court didn’t take into account whether “reasonable” people would have understood their data was being collected by Google’s Chrome browser when they chose not to activate a feature that syncs a person’s Chrome activity with their Google account.

A panel of federal judges said Tuesday that Google must face a lawsuit seeking class action status that alleged the tech giant misled some users of its Chrome browser into thinking it wasn’t collecting data on their activity, the latest in a string of legal defeats for the company in recent months.

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