Google faces US$5 billion lawsuit in US for tracking 'private' internet use

REUTERS: Google was sued on Tuesday in a proposed class action accusing the internet search company of illegally invading the privacy of millions ...

REUTERS: Google was sued on Tuesday in a proposed class action accusing the internet search company of illegally invading the privacy of millions of users by pervasively tracking their internet use through browsers set in"private" mode.

This helps the Mountain View, California-based company learn details about users' friends, hobbies, favorite foods, shopping habits, and even the"most intimate and potentially embarrassing things" they search for online, the complaint said. The complaint said the proposed class likely includes"millions" of Google users who since June 1, 2016 browsed the internet in"private" mode.

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