9th Circuit Appeal Docketed in Chrome Data Class Action vs. Google

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals docketed the appeal Dec. 27 (docket 22-16993) of six Chrome users who seek to reverse a Dec. 12 order granting Google summary judgment in a class action that alleges Google improperly collects the personal information of users who opt not to “sync” their browsers to their Google accounts. The appellants’ mediation questionnaire is due Tuesday, and April 6 is the deadline for their opening brief, said a time schedule order. Google’s answering brief is due May 8, said the order. When it was undisputed at trial that all the plaintiffs consented to the data collection when they opened their Google accounts, they turned to their alternative argument that the consent “was not effective or legally sufficient,” said U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers for Northern California in her order (docket 4:20-cv-05146) granting Google summary judgment. The court disagreed.