Appeals Court Revives Case Over Google Chrome Data Collection

Published on August 21, 2024

A case against the alleged unauthorized collection of data from Google users has been revived, with a U.S. appeals court ruling that the judge who dismissed the litigation erred in her ruling. Google Chrome users who say they did not authorize Google to collect data from them will take their case to trial after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled in their favor, pointing to Google’s policies. Google’s policy notice for Chrome, a widely used web browser, says that personal information gathered by Chrome “won’t be sent to Google unless you choose to store that data in your Google Account by turning on sync,” or synchronization. Users who sued had used Chrome without turning on sync and were surprised to later learn their data had nevertheless been collected....

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