> Texas, Indiana, Washington State and the District of Columbia filed separate suits against Google in January in state courts over what they called deceptive location-tracking practices that invade users’ privacy. // [Texas Attorney General] Paxton's filing adds Google’s Incognito mode to the lawsuit[: ... "]Google deceptively collects an array of personal data even when a user has engaged Incognito mode"
The article is quite short, as typical of CNA - but the informational content does not exceed much the above abridgement.
The website of the Texas Attorney General offers slightly more details in a summary,
> This is General Paxton’s fifth lawsuit against Google, and in it Texas argues that the company misled consumers by tracking their personal location without consent, and in many cases continued to track them after the feature was disabled by users, all of which constitute a violation of the Texas’ Deceptive Trade Practices Act. While Texas consumers were under the impression they were not being tracked, Google continued to use their private location information to boost company profits. The State now alleges that Google’s representations that users can avoid having their internet search and activity history recorded by using Incognito Mode are similarly misleading
The article is quite short, as typical of CNA - but the informational content does not exceed much the above abridgement.
The website of the Texas Attorney General offers slightly more details in a summary,
> This is General Paxton’s fifth lawsuit against Google, and in it Texas argues that the company misled consumers by tracking their personal location without consent, and in many cases continued to track them after the feature was disabled by users, all of which constitute a violation of the Texas’ Deceptive Trade Practices Act. While Texas consumers were under the impression they were not being tracked, Google continued to use their private location information to boost company profits. The State now alleges that Google’s representations that users can avoid having their internet search and activity history recorded by using Incognito Mode are similarly misleading
and links to the text of the amended lawsuit:
https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/ag-paxton...
https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/ima...