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Google, US plaintiffs resume legal combat over location data collection from Android phones

By Mike Swift ( February 23, 2023, 22:03 GMT | Insight) -- Litigation between Google and private plaintiffs who say the Internet giant's Android devices illegally collected location data will resume after the collapse of a settlement in principle the two sides said they had reached last year, a US judge in San Jose, California, said today. The proposed settlement floundered in the months after Google agreed to pay more than $500 million to settle similar Android location data privacy claims brought by Arizona and more than 40 other states.Five months after Google and a group of plaintiffs told a US court they had reached a deal to settle litigation over the company’s collection of location data from Android devices, legal combat in the high-stakes case is about to resume....

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