Plaintiffs Dismiss Their Data-Scraping Claims vs. Google Without Prejudice

The eight plaintiffs in the July 11 data-scraping class action against Google voluntarily dismissed their claims without prejudice, said their notice Tuesday (docket 3:23-cv-03440) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco. The plaintiffs, all identified in the complaint by their initials only, alleged Google has been scraping the internet for years to secretly steal their personal information, and using it to build commercial AI products like Bard, the chatbot Google recently introduced to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT.