Google Wins Order Trimming Classes in Privacy On/Off Switch Suit

Google LLC convinced a federal court to trim the class definitions in a lawsuit alleging it collected information from 100 million mobile-app users despite telling them they could turn off the data-mining function.

Users of accounts created by companies for employees and by parents for their children will no longer be included in class definitions approved by Judge Richard Seeborg of the US District Court for the Northern District of California concerning the plaintiffs’ claims of invasion of privacy.

Their inclusion was inappropriate because resolving their claims would raise individualized questions about whether they consented to Google’s data collection or ...