Google has agreed to purge billions of data points collected from users of its Chrome browser while they were surfing the web in “Incognito” mode. The agreement is part of a settlement stemming from a lawsuit brought by some consumers who claim Google was deceptive in their marketing and privacy disclosures related to Incognito mode. While Incognito mode didn’t store certain information on a person’s computer, the browser continued to send certain data points to Google’s servers. Like other companies, Google uses these data points to track certain online behaviors, which helps it determine how people use Chrome. The lawsuit claimed Google wasn’t fully transparent in how Chrome works, and that they were duped into believing their online activity wasn’t being tracked at all when they switched into Incognito mode. Through the duration of the lawsuit, Google said it thoroughly informed users about what Incognito mode did and did not do. Still, the company wanted to avoid the expense that a lengthy lawsuit might bring, and ultimately agreed last year to settle the case out of court. Image: KnowTechie The terms of the settlement were not immediately available when KnowTechie covered the outcome last December, but now we know that the settlement includes no direct payment to any of the class action plaintiffs involved. Instead, Google says it will delete billions of data points collected from millions of Chrome users that the company amassed before 2020 — the year the lawsuit was brought. That condition and others in the settlement…Google will delete data collected from Chrome’s Incognito Mode