Google Chrome Users Get Skeptical Judge at Privacy Class Hearing

A federal judge in California found issues with class certification for Chrome browser users accusing Google LLC of collecting their data without their permission.

“The problem I’ve always had with this case is it’s too generic. It’s using Chrome, it’s using the internet,” Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of the US District Court for the Northern District of California said at a hearing Friday, while discussing whether Google could raise an implied consent defense to the breach of contract claims.

Google argued in court papers that the plaintiffs and “millions of Chrome users understand” Chrome routinely collects information on them, and ...