A proposed class action has been filed by plaintiffs who wish to represent all U.S. persons who installed the Google-Apple Exposure Notification System (“GAEN”) on their mobile devices. The lawsuit was filed in April 2021 in the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs allege that Google and Apple developed a COVID-19 contract tracing app that allegedly left sensitive data exposed to multiple third parties. The suit also claims that the privacy of the end user was exposed to other users within range of the user.
According to the lawsuit, GAEN’s technology left a privacy flaw in place that they were aware of in February 2021 but ultimately failed to inform the public that their personal and/or medical information was exposed.
The lawsuit is Diaz et al. v. Google LLC, case No. 5:21—cv-03080, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
This blog is intended to provide information to the general public and to practitioners about developments that may impact Oregon class actions.
An amended complaint was filed in California state court on January 3, 2018, adding a fourth named plaintiff and more specific allegations about the internet giant’s alleged methods for paying women less than men for the same types of work.
Google Fiber has added new terms to its customer agreements. Like other large Internet service providers, customers who want to sue Google Fiber must now instead submit to arbitration.
A California federal judge approved a $415 million class action settlement between software engineers and Apple, Inc., Google, Inc. and others resolving claims they illegally agreed not to poach each other’s engineers.
Google, Apple, Intel and Adobe have now offered $415 million to settle accusations that they had conspired against their own employees, according to the New York Times. 
A federal judge sanctioned Google, Inc. for violating a court order to produce certain log files from its AdWords ad-placement service that are key to a proposed class action accusing Google of overcharging businesses that use its ad-placement service.
Judge Koh, the California federal judge overseeing the antitrust class action claiming Google Inc., Apple Inc., Intel Corp. and Adobe Systems Inc. illegally agreed not to poach each other’s engineers set April 9, 2015, as the trial start date.
We previously blogged about how Federal District Judge Koh ordered four leading tech companies to come up with more money to settle a class-action lawsuit that accuses them of conspiring against their own employees.
A Ninth Circuit panel rejected the efforts of Apple, Inc., Google, Inc. and other major technology companies to overturn a lower court’s class certification in a suit accusing the companies of violating antitrust laws by agreeing not to poach one another’s employees. In a brief opinion, the court denied the defendants permission to appeal the district court’s class certification.
A California federal judge on Thursday refused to dismiss a class action accusing Google, Inc. of violating the federal wiretap statute by scanning users’ emails to target advertising, providing plaintiffs that typically struggle to maintain privacy claims with a potentially powerful legal argument.
