Google has been battling a lawsuit for three years over allegations that its privacy menu is misleading and fails to provide adequate protection. The lawsuit focuses on a setting called Web & App Activity (WAA) and a subsetting known as sWAA, which supposedly extends privacy protection to include Chrome history and activity from sites, apps, and devices that use Google services. Despite claims that turning off WAA stops data collection, the complaint alleges that Google continues to save users' data. The case has become part of the US government's antitrust trial against Google, with sensitive documents being redacted or sealed.
For the past three years, Google has been fighting a lawsuit that claims the company has a misleading menu that promises privacy but fails to provide it.
"Google had promised that by turning off this feature, users would stop Google from saving their web and app activity data, including their app-browsing histories," the "It looks like even Sundar Pichai is confused about how this control works because he testified in front of Congress and told them something that is just wrong from a technical perspective…," he said.:"For example, Google CEO Sundar Pichai testified to Congress that, within 'My Account' user can 'clearly see what information is collected, stored.' That supposedly 'clear toggle' Mr Pichai was referring to could only be WAA.
Firebase, a cloud database, was acquired by Google in 2014, and as of 2021 was said to be incorporated into three million mobile apps. Third-party app makers can integrate Firebase using the Firebase Software Development Kit, which adds support for Google Analytics for Firebase, as well as mobile ad service AdMob and Cloud Messaging for Firebase.
The complaint cites internal Google communication about the true nature of the WAA control:"As summarized by a Google employee in an internal email, 'WAA does not actually control what is stored by Google, but simply what the user has access to. This is really bad. … I for one didn’t realize Google actually stored all of my activity even if those controls were off and I work at Google! Seems sort of silly to turn them off as I’m not any safer with them off than on.
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