The Northern District of California granted preliminary approval of a $7.5 million settlement of a consumer class action against Google LLC over data leaks caused by software bugs in its now-defunct Google+ social network platform.
The suit alleges that two 2018 data leaks caused the personal information of up to 500,000 users to be exposed because of software glitches that gave third-party application developers access to private Google+ profile data.
The court provisionally certified a settlement class of all U.S. residents who had consumer Google+ accounts for any period of time between Jan. 1, 2015, and April 2, 2019, and ...
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