Comment: $49 million price tag to sue Google on US privacy claims underscores cost of tech discovery battles
By Mike Swift ( April 19, 2023, 00:18 GMT | Comment) -- Plaintiffs suing Google on privacy allegations around its Chrome browser have spent $49 million since the suit was filed in a federal court in California nearly three years ago, a price tag that bears witness to the vast cost of challenging the data-collection practices of a large tech company such as Google or Meta Platforms in a US court. Google is now arguing that the cost of the California case is a reason a judge in Texas should stay litigation filed by the Texas attorney general over similar claims about Chrome's "Incognito" private browsing mode.Plaintiffs suing Google spent $49 million during the first three years of their class-action litigation in California pursuing privacy claims over the Chrome browser’s private browsing mode, a figure Google is invoking in its bid to freeze similar litigation filed by the Texas attorney general....
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