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Data Privacy

Sep. 8, 2023

Google seeks to deny request for 20 years of employment data

Google’s counsel, Zachary P Hutton of Paul Hastings LLP, argued the request is too broad because it constitutes 77,000 employees’ proprietary data and falls outside of the relevant limitations period.

Google LLC asked a Santa Clara judge Thursday to deny a plaintiff’s request for two decades worth of employment data from 77,000 workers in a lawsuit alleging racial discrimination by the company.

The plaintiff’s attorneys, Beth Gunn of Gunn Coble LLP and Jennifer Kramer of Hennig Kramer Ruiz & Singh LLP, requested a complete history of Google’s employment and pay data in their attempt to show a discrepancy between white and nonwhite e...

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