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Technology

Apr. 28, 2023

Judge won’t rule on Google dispute with Android users over timeliness

Android users accused the company of taking advantage of their cellular data plan allowance to send app data back to its servers. The company claims that this “passive” information transfer is fully disclosed and argued that the plaintiffs were seeking “to manufacture liability.”

A Santa Clara County judge declined Thursday to get involved in a dispute over the timeliness of expert reports between Google LLC and a proposed class of Android users, who accused the company of taking advantage of their cellular data plan allowance to send app data back to its servers,

The company claims that this “passive” information transfer is fully disclosed and argued that the plaintiffs were seeking “to manufacture liability.”

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