June 03, 2020
A California federal judge on Wednesday refused to rethink his decision to ax a proposed class action accusing Google of unlawfully tracking and storing users' private location information, finding that the Ninth Circuit's recent revival of wiretapping claims in similar litigation against Facebook didn't change anything.
December 19, 2019
A California federal judge on Thursday tossed a proposed class action alleging Google illegally tracked and stored users' private location information without consent, saying the users haven't properly alleged Google violated the state's privacy laws but giving them a chance to try again on some of their claims.
July 03, 2019
Smartphone users suing Google for allegedly continuing to track their locations in secret even after they toggled off the surveillance features in Google services urged a California federal judge to keep their case afloat, insisting that they deserve the chance to take Google to trial over the "egregious" violations of their privacy.
October 23, 2018
Google has fought back against a pair of proposed class suits alleging that the tech giant secretly kept tabs on smartphone users' locations, telling a California federal court that the iPhone and Android users agreed to the tracking when they accepted Google's privacy policy.