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Google has to face a class action lawsuit over Chrome’s data collection (www.theverge.com)

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"Google will have to face a class action lawsuit that accuses it of collecting users’ data through Chrome without their consent. In a decision on Tuesday, a federal appeals court reversed a December 2022 ruling that dismissed the case, saying the lower court should’ve reviewed Google’s disclosures and determined “whether a reasonable user reading them would think that he or she was consenting to the data collection.”...

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[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 22 points 2 months ago

reasonable user reading

🤡 legal construction to justify enslaving peasants with idiotic contract terms

this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2024

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