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Data Privacy,
Contracts,
Business Law

Mar. 4, 2025

Google seeks to dismiss privacy class action over voice recordings

Plaintiffs claim the tech giant violated its own policies by capturing and sharing audio from unintentional recordings, but Google maintains no such breach occurred.

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Google LLC argued that it did not "explicitly promise" its voice-enabled Google Assistant devices would only record conversations when prompted and asked a San Jose federal judge to grant summary judgment in a consolidated, certified privacy class action that has been pending for six years.

The dispute stems from a pair of lawsuits accusing the tech giant of violating its own terms of service and California's Unfair Competition Law by recording conversations by Goog...

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