Google faces lawsuit over tracking in apps even when users opted out

A new lawsuit accuses Google of violating federal wiretap law and California privacy law by logging what users are looking at in their apps despite them having turned off 'Web & App Activity' tracking. — Reuters

OAKLAND, California: Alphabet Inc's Google records what people are doing on hundreds of thousands of mobile apps even when they follow the company's recommended settings for stopping such monitoring, a lawsuit seeking class action status alleged on July 14.

The data privacy lawsuit is the second filed in as many months against Google by the law firm Boies Schiller Flexner on behalf a handful of individual consumers. The firm's clients also have included Google competitors such as Facebook Inc and Oracle Corp.