Judge Consolidates 3 VPPA Complaints vs. Google Into First-Filed Case

U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers for Northern California in Oakland signed an order Wednesday consolidating three Video Privacy Protection Act class actions into the first-filed case, Minahan v. Google (docket 4:22-cv-05652). All three complaints allege Google engaged in the unlawful retention of its customers’ video rental history and other personal information in violation of the VPPA. The three cases “concern common questions of law and fact,” said the order. The judge ordered the four plaintiffs in the three cases to file their consolidated class action within 30 days and for Google to respond to the consolidated complaint 30 days later.