Judge Permits ‘Mass Opt-Out’ From Eavesdropping Class Action Against Google

( February 20, 2025, 1:25 PM EST) -- SAN JOSE, Calif. — A California federal magistrate judge on Oct. 18 resolved a two-year-old discovery dispute in a class action over Google LLC’s purported eavesdropping of users of its Google Assistant (GA) app, reducing the number of user query samples the defendant must provide to the plaintiffs in light of a subsequent ruling certifying only a single class claim for unfair competition....