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Google's Australian personal-data use consumer lawsuit delayed five months

By Laurel Henning ( October 23, 2020, 03:56 GMT | Insight) -- Google’s court battle against allegations from Australia’s antitrust regulator that it misled consumers on its collection and use of personal data has suffered a setback, after a delayed case-management hearing in the case was pushed to February 2021. In Australian court orders published late Thursday, Federal Court of Australia Judge David Yates announced the delay, setting a timetable for preparing agreed facts in the case by mid-December. Google’s court battle against allegations from Australia’s antitrust regulator that it misled consumers on its collection and use of personal data has suffered a setback, after a delayed case-management hearing in the case was pushed to February 2021....

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