{"id":133442,"date":"2022-01-01T10:42:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T18:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/alphabet-ceo-ordered-to-testify-about-private-browsing-confusion-on-google-chrome"},"modified":"2022-01-01T10:42:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T18:42:49","slug":"alphabet-ceo-ordered-to-testify-about-private-browsing-confusion-on-google-chrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/alphabet-ceo-ordered-to-testify-about-private-browsing-confusion-on-google-chrome","title":{"rendered":"Alphabet CEO Ordered To Testify About Private Browsing Confusion On Google Chrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alphabet-ceo-ordered-to-testify-about-private-browsing-confusion-on-google-chrome2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A lawsuit filed in a California federal court in June 2020 claims that Google Chrome\u2019s \u201cIncognito Mode\u201d is not as private as people think.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai will need to answer questions over whether Google continues to track users even when they\u2019ve activated the browser\u2019s private browsing mode, as first reported by Bloomberg Law.<\/p>\n<p>The case, Brown et al v. Google LLC, was filed on June 2, 2020, assigned to Judge Lucy H. Koh in a U.S. District Court in San Jose, California.<\/p>\n<p>A deposition order was issued on Monday 27 for Pichai to testify in the case for up to two hours, as the plaintiffs say that Pichai has \u201cunique, personal knowledge of relevant issues relating to the Chrome browser and privacy concerns.\u201d Earlier in the case, the court also issued an order for Google\u2019s Chief Marketing Officer, Lorraine Twohill, to answer questions about how the tech giant promoted the browser\u2019s functionality.<\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s legal team tried to shield Pichai from testifying in the case. They claimed lower-level employees that worked directly on the Chrome browser were better suited to answer questions about how the browser\u2019s private browsing functionality works.<\/p>\n<p>Full Story:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lawsuit filed in a California federal court in June 2020 claims that Google Chrome\u2019s \u201cIncognito Mode\u201d is not as private as people think. Now, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai will need to answer questions over whether Google continues to track users even when they\u2019ve activated the browser\u2019s private browsing mode, as first reported by Bloomberg [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1496,1412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133442","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}