ΌIf you follow closely the news regarding the personal data of the users and their exploitation by the big technology companies, then you will probably remember that last June a group lawsuit was filed for $ 5 billion. against her Google.
The indictment is based on the company's practice of tracking users and collecting their browsing history through various plug-ins on websites, even when they were using the incognito / private mode in web browsers.
Several months have passed since then and only recently has the company pledged to radically change its user monitoring policy, however, it seems that if there was no risk of compensation it probably would not have changed anything. For the sake of truth, the Google He filed a lawsuit in federal court in California to dismiss the case last June, but the judge rejected it and the group will proceed with the case.
Through its representative, Mr. jose castanedaThe Google Notes the following in its defense:
Group lawsuits are especially important for companies, not so much for the amount of the fine, but for creating the doomed one who can start a domino of similar cases and in fact in many different countries. In addition, court decisions often force companies to make radical changes to products - services and / or to change their operating model.
We are waiting with interest for the trial of the case.
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