The Register covered the objection to the Google Location History settlement filed by the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute:
Last month, however, and in a subsequent filing last week, attorney Theodore Frank, of the nonprofit Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute, urged the court to reject the settlement proposal, noting that it’s quite feasible to pay millions of plaintiffs.
Frank has helped make that happen: He previously urged the rejection of a cy pres settlement in another Google privacy claim (In Google Referrer Header Privacy Litigation), and helped to get $23 million directed to class members. Given a 1.3 percent claim rate, that resulted in $7.70 being paid each to more than 2 million claims who would otherwise have gotten nothing.
With regard to the Location History case, Frank argued in a filing [PDF] last week that the organizations receiving the money “engage in work that a substantial percentage of the class would not want to support (such as ‘racial justice’ – a codeword for support for racial discrimination and anti-Semitic policies – and promoting abortion).”