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Google bid to snuff $30 billion privacy damages claim draws skepticism from US judge

By Mike Swift ( February 14, 2025, 02:21 GMT | Insight) -- A US federal judge in San Francisco was skeptical today of Google's argument that plaintiffs' damages expert should not be allowed to tell a federal jury in a privacy trial later this year that the company could be liable for damages of nearly $30 billion, because damages expert Michael Lasinski is deploying a "new method" to calculate damages years into the case. Nevertheless, US District Judge Richard Seeborg said he was "unclear" about the rationale for the plaintiffs' massively larger damages claim, which was originally $486 million.Google’s bid to block plaintiffs from telling a federal jury this year that the Internet giant should be liable for nearly $30 billion in damages for collecting users’ app data when they had opted out got a skeptical reception from a judge in San Francisco today....

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