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Google seeks to limit testimony of prominent technologist in looming US privacy trial

By Mike Swift ( May 16, 2025, 00:22 GMT | Insight) -- Google asked a federal judge in San Francisco today to limit the testimony of the prominent tech writer Bruce Schneier during a forthcoming federal privacy trial over the company's allegedly illegal tracking of mobile app use, calling Schneier's opinions "inflammatory and prejudicial" for a jury to hear. The case is significant because it is a candidate to be the first class-action Internet privacy trial against a Big Tech company tried before a jury. Google took its best swing today at significantly limiting the trial testimony of an expert witness — the prominent tech writer Bruce Schneier — who would be a linchpin of the plaintiffs’ case over the digital ads giant’s alleged illegal collection of app data....

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