An old one that opened in 2020 and was cancelled in 2022 Chrome The case centered on Google has come up again in case.
The lawsuit filed regarding Chrome’s method of collecting user data has been brought to the agenda again by the US Court of Appeals. In the lawsuit filed in 2020, Google It claims to collect data from users regardless of whether the sync feature in Chrome (Chrome Sync) is enabled or not. This feature saves bookmarks, passwords, open tabs and other data to your Google account, that is, to the cloud. Thanks to this useful feature, when you enter Chrome on another device, all your data is transferred from the cloud. The lawsuit filed for this infrastructure, which some people did not like as far as it was transferred, was rejected by a court decision in 2022. Now, an appeals court overturned this decision and stated that the process should be reexamined. Making a statement on the subject, Google spokesman José Castañeda said, “We disagree with this decision. Chrome Sync helps people use Chrome seamlessly across their devices and has very clear privacy controls.” he said.
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Google’s latest Android-centric made headlines with its decision to shut down an important security program. Google Play Security Rewards Program (Google Play Security Reward Program/GPSRP), security researchers to find vulnerabilities in popular Android applications and report them to the appropriate authorities to fix the vulnerabilities It was launched in late 2017 to encourage.
Researchers could generate income from the security vulnerabilities they found and thanks to this, important vulnerabilities in many applications, including popular applications, were closed. However, Google made a surprise decision and preferred to close this system. The company made a statement for this decision and the program, said they discontinued it due to a decrease in vulnerabilities reported by security researchers. This was, of course, a negative development for everyone.