Judge Dismisses Putative Class Suit Against Google For Health Care Data Collection

(July 24, 2024, 9:22 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal judge dismissed a consolidated class action complaint in which 12 anonymous plaintiffs accused Google LLC of violating of federal privacy statutes and California’s unfair competition law (UCL) by providing source code for “pixel tracking” of their private health care data, writing that the plaintiffs’ “vague” claims do not establish that Google intended to collect or did in fact receive their data....