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You’re Likely Eligible for Part of a $23 Million Google Settlement
Epoch Times ^ | Tom Ozimek

Posted on 06/17/2023 1:23:11 PM PDT by CFW

People who used Google search between 2006 and 2013 could be eligible for a portion of a $23 million settlement in a class action lawsuit against the Big Tech giant.

Google is accused of sharing users’ search queries with third-party websites and companies without their consent from Oct. 25, 2006, to Sept. 30, 2013, according to a notice of proposed settlement of the class action suit. (pdf).

While Google has not made any admissions of wrongdoing, it has agreed to enter into the settlement (pdf) to avoid burdensome and costly litigation, according to the Kroll Settlement Administration, which is involved in the proceedings. remove

The class action lawsuit is called In re Google Referrer Header Privacy Litigation, Case No. 5:10-cv-4809-EJD, pending in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

The court has a final approval hearing scheduled for Oct. 12, 2023, at the San Jose Courthouse.

(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bigtech; chumpchange; datasharing; google; searchinfo; settlement; spying
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To: LeoTDB69; All

Grab yer 50 cents and give Google your personal info again...
$23 million is nothing for a huge list of users they can sell


Great point! Say what one will about these bastids, they be smart!


21 posted on 06/17/2023 2:03:17 PM PDT by pluvmantelo (While you've a lucifer to light your fag / Smile, boys, that's the style!)
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To: LeoTDB69

a group of lawyers get your personal info too...


22 posted on 06/17/2023 2:04:47 PM PDT by cableguymn
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To: CFW

What makes a valid claim? If you used a computer back then that you no longer have, how can you show that you used Google?

It seems to me a valid claim would simply be an assertion that you used Google without any proof.


23 posted on 06/17/2023 2:05:09 PM PDT by ChronicMA
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To: TexasGator

Yada, yada yada.


24 posted on 06/17/2023 2:11:16 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: plain talk

My time is more valuable than that.


25 posted on 06/17/2023 2:15:46 PM PDT by dynachrome (“We cannot save Ukraine by dooming the US economy.” Rand Paul)
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To: ChronicMA

One indication would be having gmail from back when it was by invitation only.


26 posted on 06/17/2023 2:17:16 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: mass55th

>Never used Google Chrome, search, or anything Google on my Macs.

Maybe so, but I’m sure they’ve used you.

Install a cookie cleaner like “cookie autodelete” and you’ll be amazed at the crap that gets cleaned up.


27 posted on 06/17/2023 2:17:54 PM PDT by fretzer
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To: FoxInSocks

“Individuals who submit an approved claim stand to receive approximately $7.70, based on the available data from the involved parties.”

Payable by auto-deposit. So it only costs them $7.70 to get a whole bunch of names, addresses, and bank account numbers Google never had prior to the claim. Have to be a fool to fall for this info mining trap.


28 posted on 06/17/2023 2:18:54 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: cableguymn

“a group of lawyers get your personal info too...”

Yep... Info they did not have before.


29 posted on 06/17/2023 2:19:52 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: CFW

The attorneys will rack up the fees in this case and will receive millions.

Indeed it’s what class action cases are all about.

I received 12 cents from a Farmers insurance case.


30 posted on 06/17/2023 2:24:50 PM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: CFW

Select 23 people at random and give them a million each from the settlement. At least someone will get a useful amount of money.


31 posted on 06/17/2023 2:26:18 PM PDT by Roadrunner383
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To: CFW

48 million is bus fare to Google. It should have been 10 Billion to get their attention.


32 posted on 06/17/2023 2:28:49 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: fretzer

Thanks, but I can search and delete my own cookies via Safari settings. Don’t need to download anything to do it. I don’t download apps to either my laptop or iPhone.


33 posted on 06/17/2023 2:45:55 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: CFW

Hereby throwing in my two cents.


34 posted on 06/17/2023 3:08:36 PM PDT by nicollo ("I said no!")
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To: CFW

We get pennies and the lawyers get millions.


35 posted on 06/17/2023 3:09:33 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
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To: Openurmind
Payable by auto-deposit. So it only costs them $7.70 to get a whole bunch of names, addresses, and bank account numbers Google never had prior to the claim.

Great! Pour those personal bank account numbers into Google's insatiable maw.

I've got a small cup where I throw my loose change that has more cash value than Google's "settlement."

36 posted on 06/17/2023 3:11:54 PM PDT by henbane ( )
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To: FoxInSocks

About what I figured. I signed up anyway because my $7.70 is $7.70 some shyster lawyer won’t get. I’m thinking of it as a free Popeyes chicken sandwich......if they don’t take too long getting my windfall to me. ha ha


37 posted on 06/17/2023 3:14:56 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Oops, spoke too soon. I was referring to the similar FakeBook suit.


38 posted on 06/17/2023 3:16:37 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: CFW

“People who used Google search between 2006 and 2013 could be eligible for a portion of a $23 million settlement in a class action lawsuit against the Big Tech giant.”

that’s gonna work out to about a nickle a person ...


39 posted on 06/17/2023 3:18:04 PM PDT by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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To: mass55th

Problem is... 999 out of a 1000 websites are using hidden “Google Services” like you can’t build a site without it. So just visit one site with Google service3s and they track everything you do until you do indeed go clear your cookies. You would have to clear your cookies in between every site and page you load to truly be Google free.

Or get “NoScript” which will do this for you on the fly in real time as you browse.


40 posted on 06/17/2023 3:22:14 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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