13-year Google privacy settlement pays litigants the equivalent of a Big Mac meal

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Chocolate Factory agrees $23m guilt-free settlement

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"The small amount provided to each claimant in the proposed settlement invokes concern that this may be a friendly lawsuit to clear the defendant as the plaintiff's team of attorneys receives voluminous fees and costs for basically moving papers around," he wrote. An objection to the settlement filed by Boyd John Adams also argues the $23 million amount is too low. Adams proposed $160 million and added"I also feel Google has to admit wrongdoing." revenue of $77 billion for its third quarter of 2023. So the settlement amounts to almost 0.

from 2012, alleged that Google violated the privacy of people using its search engine. It did so by appending their search keywords to theAs the complaint explains, searching for 'abortion clinics in Indianapolis' more than a decade ago would return a search results page with a URL that included the search keywords:Web owners back then would receive these search terms when a searcher clicked on their link: The full URL with query parameters would be passed via the Referer header.

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