Under the Trump administration, the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission started investigating Amazon, Apple, Google and Meta, the parent company of Instagram and WhatsApp, for monopolistic behavior. The government has since sued all four companies Google twice in what it says is an effort to rein in their power and promote more competition.
The Google incognito lawsuit ends with the tech giant conceding to delete billions of data. Google has reportedly settled the incognito lawsuit filed against the tech giant by committing to delete billions of browsing histories, a move lauded by the consumers in the lawsuit.
Google has reportedly agreed to destroy billions of data records to settle a 2020 lawsuit that claimed that it tracked the usage of users who were browsing in Google's Incognito mode.
TECH NEWS News: Google settles lawsuit by agreeing to delete data records from private browsing, update Incognito mode info, and allow cookie blocking. The settlement
Publishers from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain and Sweden considered as antitrust regulators have cracked down on Google s ad tech business