Robinhood Hit With Online Privacy Suit Over Google Data Trackers

A California woman sued Robinhood Markets Inc. for allegedly sharing her sensitive financial information with Google LLC through hidden website trackers without her consent.

Jamillah Dunn filed the proposed class action May 8 in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. The complaint alleges Robinhood embedded invisible Google tracking software on its website that transmitted users’ account numbers, stock holdings, security prices, and search activity to Google for advertising purposes.

Google used this data to build detailed consumer profiles based on their net worth and trading activity for use in targeted advertising, despite Google’s own warnings ...