Google moves to dismiss some claims in US privacy case over Chrome
( August 28, 2025, 22:31 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Google moved to dismiss “dormant claims” in a US case accusing it of violating federal and state privacy laws by collecting personal information without consent from Chrome users who chose not to “sync” their browsers with Google accounts. Among other claims, Google said that the interception claim fails because the websites that choose to use Google services plainly consented to Google’s receiving the at-issue data and the invasion-of-privacy claim fails because plaintiffs fail to allege a reasonable expectation of privacy in the data. See attached file. ...
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