Some users sued Alphabet’s Google. They believed that Google illegally tracked users’ Internet usage. The California Federal Court ruled that the plaintiff can question Google CEO Sundar Pichai during the trial for up to 2 hours.
This lawsuit was initiated in June 2020. Users believed that Google violated privacy. When Google Chrome is set to privacy mode, it still tracks user usage. The plaintiff believed that Pichai knew about the Chrome browser and privacy-related issues.
Google News spokesperson José Castañeda (José Castañeda) believes that the new requirements are excessive and unfounded. Castaneda said: There are huge differences between the two parties in this case. The plaintiff keeps asking, and we continue to cooperate… We will continue to protect ourselves.
According to documents provided in September, Pichai already knew that there was a problem with describing the browser’s Incognito mode as a privacy mode in 2019, but Google ignored it because Pichai didn’t want this feature to be paid too much attention.
The court held that certain related information was passed to or from Pichai, and based on this reason, the plaintiff’s lawyer was asked to question Pichai. Google has previously argued that it has made it clear that Incognito can only prevent data from being stored on the user’s device.