Reuters covers the district court’s approval of the Google Location History settlement—which provides $0 to class members, over HLLI’s objection.
A U.S. judge has approved a $62 million Google consumer privacy settlement over objections that the deal awards $18 million to the plaintiffs’ lawyers and $42 million to various advocacy groups, but no money to class members.
U.S. District Judge Edward Davila in San Jose federal court signed off on the settlement in a 31-page order, opens new tab on Friday, resolving five-year-old claims that Google unlawfully tracked and stored location data for 247.7 million U.S. mobile users who had disabled “location history” on their phones.
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The settlement will now need to overcome a promised appeal to the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
“We will appeal as far as needed to get the money to the class,” said Theodore Frank, director at the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute and the Center for Class Action Fairness, who led a challenge to the deal.