May 06, 2024
A California federal judge has granted final approval to Google's $62 million settlement resolving allegations it illegally collected and stored smartphone users' private location information, a deal that includes $18.6 million in fees for the lawyers representing the consolidated class.
February 01, 2024
Attorneys who represented a consolidated class of smartphone users who sued Google in Northern California, accusing the tech giant of illegally collecting and storing private location information, have asked for $18.6 million in legal fees plus expenses, citing the $62 million deal they helped ink.
October 26, 2023
A California judge granted preliminary approval to a $62 million deal between a proposed class of smartphone users and Google, resolving claims that the search giant illegally tracked and stored users' private location information.
September 15, 2023
A proposed class of smartphone users asked a California federal judge Thursday to sign off on a $62 million deal resolving claims that Google illegally tracked and stored users' private location information, the same day the tech giant reached a similar $93 million settlement with the state's attorney general.
May 01, 2023
Google has reached a deal to resolve a putative class action accusing the tech giant of illegally tracking and storing smartphone users' private location information, the parties disclosed Friday, on the heels of several settlements the company has separately reached with state attorneys general over similar allegations.
March 22, 2023
A California federal judge tossed out Google's attempts to block the disclosure of "highly confidential" materials with an expert retained in a location tracking suit against the company, finding that Google failed to prove that the potential harm to the company would outweigh the need to disclose the materials.
March 15, 2023
Google is urging a California federal judge to reject a proposed class of users' plea to share "highly confidential" materials with an expert retained in their location tracking suit against the company, warning of "almost inevitable" litigation cross-contamination if the information were to be shared with the expert.
August 22, 2022
A group of social media users asked a California federal judge Monday to sign off on a $37.5 million settlement resolving claims that Meta Platforms' Facebook violated users' privacy with its tracking technology.
October 02, 2020
Google is withholding relevant information in a proposed class action accusing the company of illegally tracking and storing users' location data, according to a motion filed in California federal court, which says the company has already handed over the evidence at issue in a separate suit.
September 01, 2020
Google has urged a California federal judge to toss for good a proposed class action accusing the tech giant of unlawfully tracking and storing users' private location information, arguing the users' latest complaint doesn't improve their "vague, boilerplate" allegations.