Google was ordered by a U.S. appeals court to reply to a resurrected lawsuit from Google Chrome users who said that the company had collected their personal information without permission after they chose not to synchronize their browsers with their Google accounts.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco held that the lower court judge who dismissed the proposed class action should have ascertained whether reasonable Chrome users granted Google permission to gather their data while they browsed the internet.
The 3-0 decision on Tuesday follows Google’s agreement to expunge billions of records to settle a lawsuit brought last year, which claimed the Alphabet division tracked users even when they were using Chrome’s “Incognito” mode, believing they were browsing in private.
