Google Faces Another Consumer Class Action Over App Tracking

Alphabet Inc.‘s Google faces a potential consumer class action in a California federal court for allegedly monitoring app usage on mobile phones using its Android operating system.

The tech giant allegedly tracks phone users on non-Google apps without their permission, in violation of its own privacy pledges and the state’s laws, according to the complaint filed Nov. 19 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

The lawsuit echoes another suit that Google will resolve out of court through arbitration. The Google Pixel phone user, who filed the earlier lawsuit on behalf of other consumers, owned ...