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Google failed to persuade a federal judge to overturn a private school actions that claimed it had collected private data from people’s cellphones after they turned off a box to prevent the tracking, opening the door to a potential August trial. The search engine company’s chief prosecutor Richard Seeborg of the federal court in San Francisco rejected claims that people had consented to the monitoring and that the search engine company effectively disclosed how its Web &, App Activity options operated. Users of Android and non-Android mobile devices accused Google of invading their privacy and violating California’s law prohibiting unauthorized, fraudulent computer access by intercepting and saving their personal browsing histories without their consent. In a 20-page decision on Tuesday, Seeborg argued that a reasonable user might view Google’s behavior as “highly offensive” because the business collected data despite receiving complaints from several employees and knowing its details were ambiguous. He cited internal communications that suggested Google, a division of Alphabet, was intentionally ambiguous about separating data collected inside and outside Google accounts because it might be “alarming” to users.
Business Matters: Canadian Competition Bureau sues GoogleOn the other hand, Seeborg said the Google employees might simply have been suggesting ways to improve the Mountain View, California-based company’s products and services. He wrote,” Whether Google or plaintiffs ‘ interpretation prevails is a triable issue of fact.” Trending Now
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Google stated in a statement on Wednesday that “privacy controls have long been integrated into our service, and the allegations presented here are a deliberate attempt to defame how our products operate.” We will continue to fight these patently false claims in court.” Lawyers for the plaintiffs did not respond to requests for comment right away. A jury trial is scheduled for Aug. 18. The lawsuit was filed in July 2020. The federal appeals court in San Francisco revived a lawsuit last August that claimed Google had allegedly tracked Chrome browser users after they made a decision not to synchronize their browsers with their Google accounts. Google agreed to destroy billions of data records four months earlier in a settlement agreement to settle a lawsuit that claimed it had tracked users who allegedly used” Incognito” mode to browse in private areas. The plaintiffs ‘ attorneys in that case assessed the settlement at more than$ 5 billion. In the present case, the plaintiffs are represented by the same firms. The case is Rodriguez et al v Google LLC, U. S. District Court, Northern District of California, No. 20-04688. – Editing by Rod Nickel, reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York
