Chrome’s Incognito mode stops third parties from seeing your data, right? Nope! It claims you can “browse the web privately”, but you can’t. Three Chrome users got together to launch a class action suit and now court rulings have revealed that Google was aware it overstated the privacy aspect. Last year, a marketing chief asked Google CEO Sundar Pichai if they should make it “truly private”, and raised concerns over the ‘fuzzy’ language used in descriptions.
What’s clear is that Google knew all along it wasn’t really private and chose to do nothing. If Google loses, it could be paying damages, although there would be millions of potential claimants, which could be awkward.