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Google argues for coordination of 380,000 'Incognito' privacy claims in California

By Mike Swift ( June 19, 2025, 00:32 GMT | Insight) -- Google now faces more than 375,000 individual plaintiffs in a California state court on privacy claims against Chrome’s "Incognito" mode. At a hearing today, lawyers for plaintiffs who had hoped to soon stage a bellwether preference trial of a few plaintiffs told a judge that Google's move to coordinate cases in Santa Clara County with a single "Incognito" case in southern California would improperly delay the first bellwether cases from going to trial.Google is facing more than 375,000 individual plaintiffs challenging the legality of its collection of user data in the “Incognito” private mode of its Chrome browser, as the tech giant and lawyers representing the plaintiffs’ battle over when the cases might go to trial....

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