Class-Action Against Google’s Privacy Policy Thrown Out

A federal district judge in San Jose ruled that Google users who filed a class-action lawsuit claiming the tech giant broke the law when it combined the privacy policies of Gmail, Youtube, and other services under the Google umbrella failed to show Google had harmed them in any meaningful way. The case was thrown out because it failed to “do more than point to the dollars in the defendant’s pocket,” US Magistrate Judge Paul Grewal wrote in his decision. However, Google faces a more hostile legal environment regarding its privacy policy changes in European courts. “Google,” according to Dutch authorities, “spins an invisible web of our personal data, without our consent.”