Google Takes Heat in Hearing Over On-Off Switch Class Action

Google LLC faced skeptical questions in federal court Thursday as it argued that a long-running class action over its implementation of a data collection “off switch” should be tossed out because there were no factual disputes remaining in the case appropriate for a jury.

The plaintiffs alleged in the 2020 lawsuit that Google continued to surreptitiously intercept, collect, save, and use consumers’ highly personal browsing histories on their mobile devices whenever they used certain software applications that incorporated Google code. , Google promised users that turning off a feature called “Web App & Activity” would stop it from saving their ...