Google's advertising contributed $209.5 billion in revenues to the corporation in its fiscal year 2021. Now, a class action lawsuit exposes Google's opaque data-mining practices.
Go figure, it turns out that major tech firms may not be as dedicated to your privacy as their PR teams would have you think.
The most recent example appears to be Google, which was found last week by MarketWatch to have data-mining tactics that employees claim they sometimes "don’t understand and can’t describe."
The article cited a class action lawsuit in which it was claimed that Google "violated promises not to collect data of those using the browser without signing into their Google accounts." Recent unsealing of case documents provides an inside peek at Google's internal privacy discussions.
One anonymous employee seems to imply in the lawsuit that Google's privacy standards are ambiguous, saying: "I don’t have the faintest idea what Google has on me. The fact what we can’t explain what ...