Google $13 Million Street View Privacy Deal Survives Appeal Bid

Google’s $13 million class settlement resolving claims over personal data collected by its Street View vehicles remains intact after the Ninth Circuit rejected arguments Monday it unfairly benefited charitable groups at the expense of consumers.

Settlements that provide monetary relief only in the form of cy pres payments to third parties may be appropriate where there is a “direct and substantial nexus” to class members’ interests, Judge Bridget S. Bade said.

Bade signed off on the distributions to a number of internet privacy-protection organizations on behalf of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, but she also wrote ...