Google’s Pichai Dodges Questioning in Chrome Privacy Lawsuit

Sundar Pichai won’t be questioned in a proposed class-action suit accusing the Alphabet Inc.’s Google of snooping on Chrome users even after they opted out of sharing their data, a federal judge ruled.

• The ruling spares Pichai, who oversaw Chrome, the world’s most-popular browser, from answering questions from lawyers representing a handful of Chrome users who sued Google in 2020 and are potentially seeking billions of dollars in damages
• The users wanted to find out if Pichai was aware of illegal user data-gathering activity in the browser. That could have helped them make a case for enhanced damages under ...