March 27, 2026
A California federal judge on Thursday approved Google's nonmonetary deal resolving allegations it sells consumers' personal data in fast-paced digital ad auctions without their consent, but slashed class counsel's $128 million fee request to $21.8 million due to their "speculative" settlement-value estimates, "limited success" and numerous billing "errors and inefficiencies."
September 03, 2025
Google will allow hundreds of millions of users to limit the information shared about them with companies that participate in Google's fast-paced digital ad auctions, part of a nonmonetary settlement resolving allegations information is shared without users' knowledge or consent, according to a filing in California federal court.
May 08, 2025
Google has reached a settlement in principle that will resolve a putative privacy rights class action accusing the tech giant of selling consumers' personal information to companies that participate in its fast-paced digital ad auctions without users' knowledge or consent, according to a notice filed Thursday in California federal court.
January 07, 2025
A California federal judge has declined to sanction and hold Google in contempt for purportedly intentionally destroying key evidence in a putative class action claiming the company's ad auction practices violate privacy rights, saying the consumers' motion came too late after fact discovery closed.
April 22, 2024
A putative class of Google account holders urged a California magistrate judge to sanction and hold Google in contempt for purportedly intentionally destroying key evidence in their suit, which claims Google's ad auction practices violate privacy rights, arguing Google has a pattern of the alleged misconduct in the district.
April 04, 2024
A California federal judge Thursday refused to certify a class of potentially tens of millions of Google account holders alleging the company's ad auction practices violate privacy rights, saying that while the consumers have hit many certification requirements, the current class definition is improperly fail-safe.
February 21, 2024
A California federal judge on Wednesday appeared open to certifying a class of potentially tens of millions of Google account holders alleging Google's ad auction practices violate privacy rights, doubting that users consented to data-sharing if they couldn't opt out and telling Google's counsel, "there's no transparency and there's no choice."
April 17, 2023
A California magistrate judge has refused to sanction Google for allegedly failing to comply with discovery orders in a putative class action over the company's sharing of personal data with ad auction participants, finding that Google hadn't "clearly disobeyed" any document production directive.
April 11, 2023
A California magistrate judge appeared skeptical Tuesday of consumers' request that she sanction and hold Google in contempt on allegations the company violated discovery orders in a proposed consumer class action, acknowledging language in her orders was unclear and that "it's really hard to say, 'I ordered it, and they didn't do it.'"