Eavesdropper: Google may soon need to pay users to watch ads

On Wednesday, Google became the latest tech major to come under fire for violating privacy norm. A petition filed in the district court in California brought a class action suit against the search giant for tracking user information in its private browsing mode. The lawsuit contends that Google must pay $5000 per person to a million users, a total of $5 billion for violating the norms of private browsing.

Earlier this year, Facebook was asked to pay $550 million in damages for violating the Illinois Biometric Protection Act. Facebook was found violating the law by using its facial recognition without user consent. The company dragged the case to the US Supreme Court and lost.