Attorneys and privacy advocacy groups are the big winners in a $5.5 million settlement between Alphabet Inc.'s Google and consumers over claims that the search engine giant evaded web browser privacy settings (In re Google Inc. Cookie Placement Consumer Privacy Litig., 2017 BL 32259, D. Del., No. 12-MD-2358, order granting final settlement approval 2/2/17).
The case concerned Google’s alleged use of zombie cookies that continued to collect consumers’ browsing information even after they actively set up controls to block the use of cookies. Cookies are small packets of computer code that websites place on user computers to ...
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