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Landmark Google, Meta privacy verdicts in US point to jury doubts about consent

By Mike Swift ( September 5, 2025, 00:17 GMT | Comment) -- The first-ever US class-action privacy trials against tech giants Google and Meta Platforms in recent weeks comprise a limited sample, but the juries in both cases came up with strikingly similar conclusions, determining that Google and Meta failed to obtain legal consent from users to collect their personal information. Neither case is close to over. Appeals in both cases are all but certain. The ultimate effect on the companies' massively lucrative adtech businesses remains unknown. But in the twin verdicts, citizen factfinders concluded Google and Meta didn't disclose enough information, and didn't disclose it clearly enough to users, to obtain legal consent. The last month has produced two unprecedented US privacy verdicts: In both, a jury of regular people, following an extensive trial, concluded two large tech companies — Meta Platforms and Google — lacked legal consent to collect data that undergirds their adtech businesses....

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