By Mike Swift and Jenn Brice ( August 8, 2023, 00:53 GMT | Comment) -- US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers has denied a Google motion for summary judgment in full, saying the company never obtained meaningful consent to harvest personal data in Chrome’s Incognito private browsing mode, and that users face a risk of harm if Google’s business practices aren’t changed. The decision puts the case on track for a trial scheduled for Nov. 6 in Oakland, California, making it one of the very rare class-action lawsuits against a large tech company to get within sniffing distance of a jury trial that could reveal details about the company’s central revenue engine.Google has been sued many times on privacy allegations over the past decade in the US federal courts that serve the San Francisco Bay Area, that courts cover the Internet giant’s headquarters in Mountain View, California....
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