{"id":186927,"date":"2024-04-07T04:22:53","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T09:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/google-to-settle-spying-lawsuit-in-shame-delete-billions-of-records"},"modified":"2024-04-07T04:22:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T09:22:53","slug":"google-to-settle-spying-lawsuit-in-shame-delete-billions-of-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/google-to-settle-spying-lawsuit-in-shame-delete-billions-of-records","title":{"rendered":"Google to settle spying lawsuit in shame, delete billions of records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-to-settle-spying-lawsuit-in-shame-delete-billions-of-records2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The settlement terms include Google deleting \u2018billions of data records\u2019 that are from the private browsing activities of users involved in the suit. Going forward, Google will also update its disclosure to make users aware of what data it retains from the private browsing sessions.<\/p>\n<p>As per the settlement, Google will also let people using the Incognito mode block third-party cookies for the next five years. The company will also not track the user\u2019s choice of privately browsing the internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The settlement terms include Google deleting \u2018billions of data records\u2019 that are from the private browsing activities of users involved in the suit. Going forward, Google will also update its disclosure to make users aware of what data it retains from the private browsing sessions. As per the settlement, Google will also let people using [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186927","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=186927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}