{"id":108361,"date":"2020-06-08T09:03:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T16:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/google-sued-for-secretly-amassing-vast-trove-of-user-data"},"modified":"2020-06-08T09:03:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T16:03:03","slug":"google-sued-for-secretly-amassing-vast-trove-of-user-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/google-sued-for-secretly-amassing-vast-trove-of-user-data","title":{"rendered":"Google Sued for Secretly Amassing Vast Trove of User Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-sued-for-secretly-amassing-vast-trove-of-user-data2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google surreptitiously amasses billions of bits of information \u2014every day \u2014 about internet users even if they opt out of sharing their information, three consumers alleged in a proposed class action lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoogle tracks and collects consumer browsing history and other web activity data no matter what safeguards consumers undertake to protect their data privacy,\u201d according to the complaint filed Tuesday in federal court in San Jose, California.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit argues that while Google lets users turn off data collection when using its Chrome web browser, other Google tools used by websites themselves scoop up their data anyways. The suit includes claims for invasion of privacy and violations of federal wiretapping law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google surreptitiously amasses billions of bits of information \u2014every day \u2014 about internet users even if they opt out of sharing their information, three consumers alleged in a proposed class action lawsuit. \u201cGoogle tracks and collects consumer browsing history and other web activity data no matter what safeguards consumers undertake to protect their data privacy,\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,1496],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}