Google Mobile App Users Lose Bid for Appeal in Geotracking Suit

Consumers suing Google LLC for allegedly tracking a proposed class of mobile phone users without their consent won’t get an immediate appeal of a federal court’s decision to dismiss California privacy law claims.

They didn’t show the adverse ruling presented a “controlling question of law,” the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California said Wednesday.

The users sued Google for allegedly illegally tracking and storing geolocation data with its mobile apps and operating system. The plaintiffs said they reasonably believed that turning off Google’s “Location History” feature would also prevent it from retaining the data. But disabling the ...