Google Win in Chrome Privacy Case Reversed by Appeals Court (2)

Google LLC must face a revived privacy class action alleging the Chrome browser surreptitiously collected user data, after a San Francisco-based federal appeals court on Tuesday reversed an earlier win.

The district court judge failed to properly review the terms of Google’s various data privacy disclosures, and the issue of user consent should go to trial, a three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled.

The Chrome users first sued the Alphabet Inc. subsidiary for privacy violations in 2020, arguing that Google continued to track users’ personal information, IP addresses, and browsing history even ...