Google $62 Million Location-Data Settlement Finalized by Judge

A federal judge approved a $62 million class-action settlement arising from Google Inc.'s alleged tracking and storage of the mobile-device user-location data of nearly 250 million US users.

The final approval order, from the US District Court for Northern California, follows preliminary approval last November. The lawsuit was filed in 2018, alleging that Google violated Californian’s constitutional right to privacy by collecting the data despite users disabling “location history.”

The case underwent two rounds of motions to dismiss before parties agreed to settle in principle in September 2022, according to Judge Edward J. Davila’s order dated May 3. ...