Google Agrees to Delete Billions of Files Collected in Chrome Incognito

Yes, this will definitely happen

Step 1: move data from files into a database
Step 2: delete files
Step 3: press release that we just deleted the files
Google, probably
Can they even untrain an IA with a given set of Data?
"Bard, forget this ever existed"
"Sure, I'll make a copy so I won't forget to forget"
- Machine Unlearning is a very active field right now but basically no not really
You laugh but it would be really dumb for this not to happen. They would be held liable and most of the data they collect doesn't come from incognito
- Sure they will be held liable. Just like everything else they are held liable for.
- you are way too optimistic my man, haha

Of course they do, they've already scanned all of them and updated their respective user profiles.

Am I the only one who never thought that incognito mode or the equivalent on FF was protecting me from anything other than anyone else who may use the same pc? I don't share my pc with anyone so I only use those modes when I think a website is acting up because of previously stored cookies, credentials or my various script blockers.

Incognito mode is for hiding your search history from your relatives and friends. Corpos ready have that data anyways.
- Exactly. And you can't be surprised when a company that also runs a search engine and ad network stores that data for other purposes.
  I rarely jump in on things like this because of the lack of understanding of how things actually work as well as the inevitable responses like from OP and someone else I just responded to.
  To repeat for those who may not get it just yet. Private browsing on FF and incognito mode on chrome are specifically for use when you use a shared pc or someone else's system to check your email or whatever. It's always been designed to protect locally not from the greater web.
  I don't remember ever seeing or hearing anything from Google about this mode hiding data from them.
Private mode is for when I want to pull up some weird YouTube video where some guy silently melts copper into bars and not have it clog up my partner’s reccos
- I have something in common with that sentence but mine ends at pull
Yeah it is more of a debugging tool then anything.
No you are not,
take this link and share it around to others who trust them..
- I think you misread me.
  I never thought that these modes were protecting me from anything except those who shared the same pc. Apparently I am the only one who understands the way the internet works and that nothing you do or any software you run on your system can stop every website and server you interact with or that passes on your data packets to the next server from logging everything it can about you.
  How do people think that sites like reddit cross check and correlate data from users to find those with multiple accounts that are attempting to evade bans? There is so much data that we don't even know we are creating.
  I'm all for privacy and anonymity when and where it makes sense but it seems like people here have no idea what the difference between the two are and just how difficult it is and how much extra friction it brings to attempt to be completely anonymous and private via a system designed to connect people.

Because they've already gleaned what they wanted.

We already profited from that data, so who cares.

It's all fine, they have another set of billions of files as copies so they can safely remove the original collections.

Closed app by data mining company, of course they get all the data they can.

Just the "agree" on title is too much in real ^^"

Incognito is just a word that means things.
Not those things. Well - yes, it does mean that but it doesn’t mean that hahaha. No, we just called it that but that’s not on us, if you don’t know that, then that's on you for believing in the definition of words. Also this message is private. And secret. When we say “let’s all murder trump” over and over - it is the name of the product, so you can’t blame us for saying it all the time - it doesn’t actually mean that, you see. I mean, obviously. You’d have to be a Grade-A moron to think it was anything but a secret message that was private and didn’t mean what the words usually mean. Pfft.

Ever since I used a browser, both Firefox and Chrome always clearly stated, that Incognito Tabs are not private browsing, and they said so in every Tab in very clear terms. Why is that controversial then?

That is what a lot of people don't understand, incognito mode only delete the local storage of the browser data (cookies, cache, service workers, etc), the Cookie Autodelete or SiteBleacher extensions do exact the same in normal browsing, but don't prevent that the web pages log the activity in their server, they see you in the same way as in the normal mode, your IP, browser you use, OS, fingerprints, etc..if you don't use a VPN. The issue is that in the case of Chrome your activity data is sended to Google, independent of incognito or normal browsing.
Well it's like this: a thief keeps knocking on people's doors and says that their locks are not theft proof.. and insists that it has always been so as the thief is also the locksmith.

dont trust their allegations

It's gross they were collecting them in the first place.

You Guys have to just put up with it and there's nothing you can do about it unless you start protesting , the kind of protest that happens in France. Get politicians to act however its in the politicians best interest that they keep gathering data so that they know when a protest happen whom to prosecute

Even un France they ignore our protest... Totally ignore them and answers them with full police.
Hahahahahajaja

This topic was already covered over a week ago.

Are they going to do it tho ?

Oh suuuuure! Sure. Absolutely. Yes. Ha ha of course! Of course.
I mean, have you ever known the world’s largest data mining company to not permanently delete data they could otherwise profit from?
Happens all the time, probably.