January 26, 2026
Google LLC and Alphabet Inc. have asked a California federal judge to preliminarily approve a $68 million class action settlement that would resolve long-running claims that Google Assistant-enabled devices recorded users' conversations without consent.
May 30, 2025
Google and a 30 million-strong consumer class have told a California federal judge they've made "substantial progress" in reaching a potential settlement that would "fully and finally" resolve a years-old action alleging Google Assistant-enabled devices surreptitiously recorded conversations to fuel its advertisement business and train machine-learning models.
February 18, 2025
A California federal judge has refused to block more than 69,000 consumers from opting out of a certified class action over the audio recording practices of Google's home devices in order to pursue their claims in individual arbitration, finding that the claimants had properly excluded themselves from the dispute.
August 27, 2024
A California federal judge expressed frustration Tuesday with discovery delays in a years-old class action alleging Google Assistant-enabled devices surreptitiously recorded conversations, telling attorneys they've already "been around and around and around" on discovery fights, and "we need to keep this moving."
January 23, 2024
A California federal judge rejected Google's bid to arbitrate a certified consumer class action alleging its Google Assistant-enabled devices surreptitiously recorded conversations, finding the company waived its right to arbitration by waiting four years into the heated litigation to make its request.
December 12, 2023
A California federal judge certified one of three proposed classes in a consumer privacy action alleging that Google Assistant-enabled devices recorded their conversations, finding that the consumers have put forth a fitting representative for the purchaser class but not for the proposed privacy classes.
February 02, 2023
Google asked a California federal judge to send to arbitration a "significant portion" of a privacy class action by consumers alleging its Google Assistant-enabled devices recorded their conversations, arguing a large portion of class members agreed to mandatory arbitration agreements either when prompted during device setup or device purchase.
October 28, 2022
While tracking cases related to their own practice, intellectual property attorneys may not have seen that, elsewhere in law, judges have cracked down on attorneys acting poorly, a new justice heard her first oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court and satirical news site The Onion made a plea to the high court in support of parody. Here, Law360 breaks down why seemingly irrelevant developments are worth your time.
October 20, 2022
A California federal judge slammed Google on Thursday for its eleventh-hour request to seal an upcoming hearing on consumers' class certification motion in high-stakes privacy litigation over the audio recording practices of the company's home devices, telling Google's counsel their request doesn't deserve a response and "it was offensive that you submitted that late."
January 12, 2022
A California federal judge has dismissed two claims from a proposed privacy class action accusing Google of recording users' conversations with its Google Assistant-enabled devices, or GAEDs, knocking out allegations that the tech giant violated a California consumer protection law and committed fraud.