Google Biometric Privacy Suit Reassigned to FTC v. Meta Judge

The Oct. 21 class action alleging Google, through Google Assistant, “surreptitiously” collects, uses and stores voiceprints of each individual who speaks to an enabled device, in violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (see 2210260071), was reassigned randomly to U.S. District Judge Edward Davila for Northern California in San Jose, said a clerk’s order Thursday (docket 5:22-cv-06398). Davila is the judge presiding over the FTC’s lawsuit to block Meta’s Within Unlimited buy on antitrust grounds and who on Tuesday struck down Meta’s attempt to disqualify FTC Chair Lina Khan from the proceeding for her alleged bias against the company (see 2211030068). Ryan Segal, the plaintiff in the Google class action, declined Thursday to have his case tried before a magistrate judge, said a court document.