Revised $23 Million Agreement In Google Referrer Header Privacy Row Initially OK’d

Mealey's ( June 22, 2023, 9:04 AM EDT) -- SAN JOSE, Calif. — Eight years after approving a previous settlement in a decade-old consolidated Stored Communications Act (SCA) class action against Google LLC, a California federal judge preliminarily approved a newly negotiated settlement that focuses on direct relief to consumers rather than to cy pres recipients, which had led to objections and a U.S. Supreme Court appeal of the first settlement....