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Google fights to exclude privacy scandals, 'ambush' witnesses in app-tracking trial

By Maria Dinzeo ( June 26, 2025, 00:39 GMT | Insight) -- Google is seeking to bar jurors from hearing what it calls irrelevant or highly prejudicial evidence and testimony — and to split an upcoming privacy trial into two phases — in a high-stakes case that could expose the company to billions in damages and reshape how it tracks user activity through apps. The tech giant asked a federal judge today to exclude references to prior data scandals, reproductive and health apps, and testimony from executives and former engineers that it says would confuse or inflame the jury during the liability phase of the trial.Google fired another salvo in its battle to narrow the scope of evidence a jury will get to see in a trial this summer over whether it secretly tracked app activity from users who explicitly opted out....

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