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Google has agreed to settle a US lawsuit claiming it invaded the privacy of users by tracking them even when they were browsing in "private mode".US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers put a scheduled trial for the case on hold in California on Thursday, after lawyers said they had reached a preliminary settlement.
It said this had turned Google into an "unaccountable trove of information" on user preferences and "potentially embarrassing things".
It added that Google could not "continue to engage in the covert and unauthorized data collection from virtually every American with a computer or phone".
Earlier this month, the technology giant said it would pay $700m to settle a lawsuit brought by a group of US states that accused Google of quashing competition to its Play Store on Android devices.
The video game company sued Google in 2020 for unlawfully making its app store dominant over rivals.
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