U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Jan. 11, 2014
Google wiretap plaintiffs face a hurdle: the large size of the class
Now that Google Inc. has lost its bid to find a Wiretap Act escape hatch from the huge class action brewing over its Street View collection of home and business Wi-Fi data, the size of the potential class could work in its favor.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Now that Google Inc. has lost its bid to find a Wiretap Act escape hatch from the huge class action brewing over its Street View collection of home and business Wi-Fi data, its salvation could lie in the very size of the potential class its data harvesting created.
Google acknowledged in 2010 that it had captured 600 gigabytes of Wi-Fi data in the U.S., Europe and Australia as part of its Street View p...
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