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Google’s privacy toggles are ‘fake,’ plaintiff tells US jury

By Maria Dinzeo and Xu Yuan ( August 20, 2025, 22:56 GMT | Insight) -- A Florida man who says he turned off Google’s data-tracking settings after watching the Netflix documentary "The Social Dilemma" took the stand today, accusing the tech giant of building “fake” privacy controls that misled him into believing his app activity would no longer be collected. Longtime Google product manager David Monsees testified the setting was never meant to halt all collection and that de-identified data is essential to run Google's services.Every privacy case has a catalyst. For Julian Santiago, it was "The Social Dilemma," the documentary that aired on Netflix in September 2020 that explores how tech giants designed their social media apps to manipulate human behavior and fuel addiction....

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