Google may face lawsuit for collecting data from Android smartphones even after users denied consent
Google failed to persuade a federal judge to dismiss a privacy class action claiming it collected personal data from people's cellphones after they switched off a button to stop the tracking, paving the way for a possible August trial. In a 20-page decision on Tuesday, Seeborg said reasonable users could view Google's conduct as "highly offensive," because the company collected data despite fielding concerns from several employees and knowing its disclosures were ambiguous. He cited internal communications suggesting that Google, a unit of Alphabet, opens new tab, was intentionally vague in distinguishing between data collected inside and outside Google accounts because users might find the truth "alarming." Last August, the federal appeals court in San Francisco revived a lawsuit accusing Google of tracking Chrome browser users after they chose not to synchronise their browsers with their Google accounts. Four months earlier, Google agreed to destroy billions of data records to settle a lawsuit claiming it tracked people who thought they were browsing privately, including on Chrome browsers set to "Incognito" mode.
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