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U.S. Supreme Court

Jul. 2, 2014

Google loses Street View Wi-Fi appeal

Google Inc.'s legal woes deepened Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court let stand a 2013 federal appellate ruling that the Wiretap Act doesn't save it from a huge potential class action over its data mining of Wi-Fi transmissions.

By John Roemer
Daily Journal Staff Writer

Google Inc.'s legal woes deepened Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court let stand, without comment, a 2013 federal appellate ruling that the Wiretap Act doesn't save it from a huge potential class action over its data mining of Wi-Fi transmissions as part of its Street View program. With the high court denying cert, the case is free to proceed toward discovery and class certification litigation in the Northern District along with possib...

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