One word to sum up D.C. news this year? Drama
Marketplace All-in-One
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4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Think of it as a soap opera, only broadcast on C-SPAN. We’re recapping the top political and economic headlines that came out of the nation’s capital in 2023 — from the House speaker fight, to the debt ceiling debates and the showdown over a government shutdown. We’ll also forecast D.C.’s biggest stories in the year ahead. Plus, Greyhound closes bus stations, and Google settles a class-action lawsuit.
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| 0:00.0 | Google will pay for its private browser that wasn't so private. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm David Brancaccio. |
| 0:07.0 | Alphabets Google has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit alleging it misled millions of people using the supposed privacy mode of its |
| 0:14.5 | Chrome Internet browser. The suit alleged Google continued to track user |
| 0:19.1 | activity. Plaintiffs were seeking billions and damages. |
| 0:22.4 | Marketplace's Nova Safo has some details here. who are seeking billions and damages. |
| 0:22.5 | Marketplace's Nova Safo has some details here. |
| 0:26.1 | Yeah, and we don't know what the final settlement amount is, |
| 0:29.1 | David, but details have not been disclosed yet. |
| 0:31.4 | The lawsuit, though though is seeking compensation for |
| 0:33.6 | users going back to 2016, potentially millions of people, so the total could have |
| 0:38.5 | been five billion dollars or more if Google lost a trial. |
| 0:42.8 | There won't be a trial though. |
| 0:43.8 | The two sides submitted a request to a federal judge in Oakland, California to halt a trial |
| 0:48.3 | date, which was set for early February. |
| 0:51.3 | They say they've reached a preliminary settlement. They will |
| 0:53.9 | continue to negotiate the details and plan to present a formal agreement for |
| 0:58.4 | court approval by late February. Now if you tell me more about what the plaintiffs believed Google did wrong. |
| 1:07.0 | All right, so if you're using Chrome, you can switch to so-called incognito mode, and the plaintiffs were alleging that Google misled |
| 1:14.4 | users about how private that mode was. Google has said that it makes it clear |
| 1:19.8 | that Incognito mode simply means that browsing activity is not saved locally on a computer or |
| 1:25.2 | browser. The plaintiff said Google's behavior was misleading because it continued to collect |
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