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Data Privacy

May 8, 2020

Federal claim against Google over recordings is tossed

A federal judge in San Jose threw out a class action accusing Google of illegally recording, listening to and profiting off of user conversations on its devices.<

A federal judge in San Jose threw out a class action accusing Google of illegally recording, listening to and profiting off of user conversations on its devices.

The consumer plaintiffs failed to show they had a reasonable expectation of privacy that would prohibit the practice, U.S. District Judge Beth Freeman found. She gave them a chance to fix the defects and refi...

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