Technology,
Class Action
Dec. 14, 2022
Google scores 2 victories in browser class actions
In one case, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland issued an order granting Google’s motion for summary judgment and denying plaintiffs’ motion for class certification. She ruled that the data collection at issue is not specific to the Chrome browser but all Google features, meaning this situation falls under Google’s general privacy policies.
Google LLC scored a pair of big victories in class actions regarding the company’s Chrome browser.
In one case, plaintiffs alleged that even though they chose not to sync their Google accounts with their Chrome browsers and Google promised Chrome users any information the browser stores would not be sent to Google unless they chose to sync accounts, the company “intentionally and unlawfully causes Chrome to record and send users’ personal...
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