Google has attracted dissatisfying responses from users, especially from the Indian userbase as it revived TikTok’s rating and removed Indian apps Mitron and Remove China Apps. Moreover, a lawsuit has been filed against it in the US for peeping into user’s using Incognito mode.
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Peeping Google Sued A $5 billion lawsuit has been filed against Alphabet Inc, the parent company of Google. It is accused of collecting information about what people are browsing in Incognito mode. The complaint has been filed in the federal court in San Jose, California, for violations of federal wiretapping and California privacy laws. In the report, it is claimed that the company uses Google Analytics, Google Ad Manager, website plugins and smartphone apps to gather users’ data. Collected data could be on users’ friends, hobbies, favorite foods, shopping habits, and even the “most intimate and potentially embarrassing things” they search for online. As per the lawsuit, data of Incognito mode since June 1, 2016, has been gathered. It demanded $5000 compensation for each user.
Incognito mode
No person using the same device will be able to find out what you have searched
Doesn’t save cookies and browsing history
Files do not appear in download manager
Websites can collect information about your browsing activity
Downloaded files from websites remain on your computer
Bookmarked sites remain in the bookmark list
Google Play Store Facing Backlash Recently, Google play store has removed India’s Mitron and Remove China Apps from the Play Store. As per the Cybersecurity experts and researchers, Mitron app had some security related issues and was not safe to use. Mitron app was developed by Shivank Agarwal, a student of IIT Roorkee. The source code of the app was purchased from Pakistani coding company Qboxus. Agarwal launched it after customizing the coding and changing the privacy policy. But it was found out that the app had software security and weak privacy policy issues. According to the cybersecurity experts, Remove China Apps was safe to use as it scanned only installed android application package (APK) and searched for its developer’s country to match it with its repository. OneTouch AppLabs developed Remove China Apps violated Google’s ‘spam and minimum functionality’ policy, as per experts.
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