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In re Google Referrer Header Privacy Litigation

  1. October 16, 2023

    Google Users' Attys Get $5.75M In Decadelong Privacy Fight

    A California federal judge on Monday gave his final blessing to Google's $23 million settlement with users accusing it of sharing their search terms with third parties, awarding the plaintiffs' attorneys at KamberLaw LLC, Nassiri & Jung LLP and Progressive Law Group about $5.75 million in fees.

  2. June 29, 2023

    Google Objectors Lower Fee Request To Avoid Legal Woes

    Two former public interest attorneys representing a class of plaintiffs over settlement distribution concerns after they sued Google in a recently settled decade-old privacy class action asked a California federal judge this week to lower the attorney fees they had requested by more than a million dollars to avoid further litigation.

  3. January 05, 2023

    Google To Pay $23M To End Decade-Old Data Privacy Suit

    Google has agreed to pay $23 million and update its disclosures to resolve a decade-old, nationwide proposed class action on remand from the U.S. Supreme Court that claims it violated privacy statutes by sharing nearly 200 million users' search terms with third parties, according to a California federal court filing Wednesday.

  4. October 07, 2021

    Google To Settle Long-Running Data Leakage Privacy Battle

    Google and a group of its users told a California federal court Wednesday that they had reached a settlement agreement in principle to an 11-year-old privacy class action over allegations that its search engine leaked users' personal data, nearing an end to a battle that had made it all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

  5. September 17, 2020

    Google Can't Pursue Quick Appeal In Third-Party Privacy Suit

    A California federal judge on Wednesday rejected Google's bid for an immediate appeal of the court's order that found users have standing to sue the tech giant over its alleged practice of sharing search terms with third parties, ruling that it isn't an "exceptional" case that merits such an appeal.

  6. July 13, 2020

    Google Wants Quick Appeal Of Order Preserving Privacy Suit

    Google on Friday requested permission to immediately appeal a California federal court's order last month finding that users have standing to sue the tech giant over its purported practice of sharing search terms with third parties, arguing an appeal now avoids a "burdensome and possibly unneeded delay" down the road.

  7. June 05, 2020

    Google Can't Ditch Decade-Old Privacy Suit Under Spokeo

    A California federal judge on Friday refused to toss a decade-old proposed class action on remand from the U.S. Supreme Court that claims Google violated privacy statutes by sharing users' search terms with third parties, finding that the users have standing under Spokeo to pursue their claims.

  8. June 04, 2020

    Google Says Spokeo Means 'It's Time To End' Decade-Old Suit

    Google urged a California federal judge Thursday to dismiss a decade-old putative class action on remand from the U.S. Supreme Court that claims the tech giant violated privacy statutes by sharing users' search terms with third parties, saying the users "clearly" lack standing under Spokeo and "it's time to end this."

  9. April 02, 2015

    Google's $8.5M Privacy Deal Wins Approval On 2nd Attempt

    Google Inc. won a California federal judge's approval Thursday of an $8.5 million settlement in a class action alleging the tech giant divulged users' search terms, overcoming the court's earlier objections to some class fund payment recipients as being the "usual suspects."

  10. September 24, 2014

    Stanford Denies Keeping Google Funds From Privacy Studies

    A Stanford Law School center that has been tapped to receive funds as part of a contested $8.5 million class action settlement over Google Inc.'s disclosure of search terms on Wednesday vehemently denied a report that it had pledged not to use donations from Google for privacy research.

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