Technology,
Class Action
Jan. 8, 2024
2 classes certified on claims Google tracked app activity
The judge also ruled that the proposed class met the predominance and superiority standards for certification, rejecting arguments from Google’s counsel that the plaintiffs’ suffered harms are individualized and cannot be determined on a class-wide basis.
Mobile app users that accused Google LLC of reneging on promises not to track web and app activity successfully obtained class certification.
Chief U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg in San Francisco found Wednesday that the two proposed classes satisfied the numerosity, commonality, typicality and adequacy requirements for class certification. Both groups claimed their data was transmitted to Google while using non-Google branded apps.
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