By Ashley Belanger
Publication Date: 2026-08-19 20:04:00
Additionally, Google has made binding commitments in court to never intentionally re-identify the data.
However, as the flight attendants’ association pointed out, the data sale seems to require that both consumers and workers put a lot of trust in Google.
Meanwhile, skeptics, which to some extent includes the AFA, know that Google has been accused of shady data practices linked to privacy violations in the past. In 2024, Google settled a class action lawsuit raised by Incognito users and agreed to delete billions of data records reflecting users’ private browsing activities that it surreptitiously collected. Then last year, Google agreed to pay Texas $1.4 billion to settle a lawsuit claiming Google unlawfully tracked and collected users’ private data regarding geolocation, incognito searches, and biometric data. In a press release, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton bragged that it was “the highest recovery nationwide against Google for any attorney…
