Google Seeks to Toss New Privacy Claims Over Location Data

Sept. 1, 2020, 5:13 PM UTC

Alphabet Inc.‘s Google is urging a federal court to reject users’ new claims that services like search and maps invade privacy by improperly tracking movements.

The users haven’t pointed to any specific or continuous location data that would be considered an invasion of privacy, the company said in a Monday filing in the Northern District of California.

Google is trying to shoot down users’ new arguments after the court dismissed their claims in December as too speculative. The new claims add an argument that location tracking violates Google’s Terms of Service.

The company objected to those claims in its ...

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