Plaintiffs alleging Google continued to collect users' browsing data while using “incognito” mode in a 2020 federal lawsuit had their appeal for class-action status denied in the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Reuters reports. The plaintiffs are seeking USD5 billion in damages and, had they been granted class-action status, they could have pursued "large-scale claims against Google as a group" instead of filing individual lawsuits. Court filings stated the class could have been composed of “tens of millions” of users. A jury trial for the original lawsuit is scheduled for November.