Local News Matters Bay Area reported on HLLI’s objection to In re Google Location History Litigation.

He [Ted Frank] argued that judges shouldn’t be diverting money from class members to third parties. He said that under the settlement, class members were giving up their individual claims to fund organizations they had no connection to.

The absurdity of that structure, he argued, was that a class member who “opted out” — that is, declined to participate in the class action — got a better deal than one who stayed in: the one opting out got all the same indirect “benefits” of the settlement, but did not have to give up his or her claim.

Read more at Local News Matters Bay Area.