How to stop Google from tracking your computer and limit its data collection of your online history

You can stop Google from tracking your computer by going to your Google Account page and turning off several features.

How to use Google Takeout to download your Google data

Google Takeout is a service that backs up all of your Google account's data into one file, which you can then download.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Google data collection angers Europeans

BERLIN • European privacy regulators and advocates reacted angrily Saturday to the disclosure by Google, the world's largest search engine, that it had systematically collected private data on ...

Google's Invasion Of Privacy Trial Ends With A $425 Million Win For Cell Phone Users

Google has been ordered to pay $425 million in a privacy-related class action lawsuit. You may be due some money, but the ...
Law

Litigators of the Week: Google Hit With a $425.7 Million Verdict in Landmark Data Privacy Class Action Trial

A team led by David Boies at Boies Schiller Flexner, Bill Carmody at Susman Godfrey and John Yanchunis at Morgan & Morgan represent plaintiffs who claim Google collected data from third-party apps ...

Google hit with $806M in penalties from US and French authorities over privacy issues

The tech giant was ordered to pay $425 million by the San Francisco jury, while France imposed $381 million (€325 million) fine in a coordinated assault on data collection practices.
Ars Technica

Google loses in court, faces trial for collecting data on users who opted out

A federal judge this week rejected Google's motion to throw out a class-action lawsuit alleging that it invaded the privacy of users who opted out of functionality that records a users' web and app ...