Security News > 2020 > February > Lawsuit Claims Google Collects Minors’ Locations, Browsing History

The lawsuit alleges that Google has used the service to collect data of children using the service, including their physical locations, websites they visit, terms used in Google's search engine and videos watched on YouTube.

In all of these cases, the lawsuit alleges, Google has not properly disclosed to users that it's collecting this data.

The lawsuit claims that when students log into their Chromebook, the Chrome Sync function - which is used by Google to sync apps, auto-fill information, and more - is turned on by default.

The feature then automatically starts uploading Chrome usages data to Google servers, including online browsing habits, web searches and passwords.

Google denied the claims as "Factually wrong."

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