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US judge shapes 'massive' Google privacy trial with series of pretrial rulings

By Mike Swift ( August 6, 2025, 23:23 GMT | Insight) -- With a jury trial less than two weeks away in what he described as a “massive data privacy class action” against Google with “billions of dollars” at stake, a California federal judge ruled on 20 pretrial motions that framed the evidence each side can introduce in the three-week trial. Ruling in San Francisco, US District Judge Richard Seeborg sought to focus the evidence the jury will hear on what Google told its users about its collection of their personal data, not what apps told them or what Google told app developers.With Google’s “massive” data privacy trial and potentially billions of dollars in damages at stake over its user disclosures less than two weeks away, a San Francisco federal judge today pruned the thicket of evidence the two sides can present and clarified the jury’s role....

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