Google defeats lawsuit over privacy policy

By Amy Miller ( July 16, 2015, 19:34 GMT | Insight) -- A federal magistrate judge has dismissed a lawsuit claiming that Google violated privacy laws by commingling data it collects about users of separate services into a single database, saying that the plaintiffs hadn’t sufficiently pled any injury. US Magistrate Judge Paul Grewal granted Google’s fourth motion to dismiss without giving the plaintiffs an opportunity to amend their complaint.A federal magistrate judge has dismissed a lawsuit claiming that Google violated privacy laws by commingling data it collects about users of separate services into a single database, saying that the plaintiffs hadn’t sufficiently pled any injury....

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