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Google Privacy and Ad-Tech Litigation
Coverage from CNET, LegalTech Digest, and others
Google’s privacy and ad-tech litigation spans class actions, regulatory cases, appeals, and court-ordered or proposed remedies.
Proceedings have addressed real-time bidding data sharing, Android background cellular-data transfers, location tracking after users changed settings, and alleged collection of children’s information through Google Play apps. Separate ad-tech antitrust proceedings examine Google’s role in publisher ad serving and ad exchanges, including proposed limits on self-preferencing or structural separation. Outcomes include disclosures, opt-out controls, changes to default settings, monetary settlements, and continuing disputes over the scope of competition remedies.
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Important
Joseph Taylor filed a US class action against Google for alleged Android cellular data collection without opt-out, with a settlement awaiting June 23 final approval.
5/24/2026 • Regulation, Law & Enforcement • General
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Google’s $62 million location-tracking settlement, allowing cy pres distribution to privacy nonprofits because individual payments were impractical.
8/27/2026 • Regulation, Law & Enforcement • General
Google and AdMob reached an $8.25 million COPPA settlement after alleged personal data collection of children under 13 via Google Play apps without parental consent.
6/12/2026 • Regulation, Law & Enforcement • General
Interesting
Google reached a $135 million Android class-action settlement in the United States requiring default background data setting changes by May 9, 2026.
5/9/2026 • Regulation, Law & Enforcement • General
U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers on Tuesday approved a nationwide class settlement in San Francisco requiring Google to add a real-time bidding privacy control for U.S. account holders.
2/17/2026 • Consumer Privacy & Digital Rights • General
A U.S. federal judge approved a settlement requiring Google to add an RTB control limiting data shared in ad auctions for U.S. account holders in 2025 in San Francisco.
2/17/2026 • Consumer Privacy & Digital Rights • General
DOJ and Google submitted witness and exhibit lists for the Sept. 22 remedies phase of DOJ v. Google in the Eastern District of Virginia over ad tech divestiture and self-preferencing limits.
8/20/2025 • Regulation, Law & Enforcement • General