Brown v. Google LLC
Brown v. Google LLC
Case 5:20-cv-03664-LHK (N.D. Cal. 2021)
April 30, 2021
van Keulen, Susan, United States Magistrate Judge
Summary
The court has ordered Google to apply and provide hit counts for various searches related to user data, privacy policies, and market power. The parties are to continue to meet and confer and provide status updates on these searches. The court has also ordered Google to comply with privacy laws and provide hit counts for searches related to specific projects.
Additional Decisions
CHASOM BROWN, WILLIAM BYATT, JEREMY DAVIS, CHRISTOPHER CASTILLO, and MONIQUE TRUJILLO, individually and on behalf of all other similarly situated, Plaintiffs,
vs.
GOOGLE LLC, Defendant
vs.
GOOGLE LLC, Defendant
Case No.: 5:20-cv-03664-LHK-SVK
United States District Court, N.D. California, San Jose Division
Filed April 30, 2021
van Keulen, Susan, United States Magistrate Judge
ORDER RE: GOOGLE SEARCH TERMS
Re: Dkt. 140
Before the Court is the parties’ Joint Submission Re: Google Search Terms (Dkt. 140). Having considered the submission, and good cause having been shown, the Court orders as follows:
For the ten Google-selected custodians (Glenn Bernston, Deepti Bhatnager, Sabine Borsay, Greg Fair, Helen Harris, Abdelkarim Mardini, Justin Schuh, Dan Stone, Alexei Svitkine, and Keith Wright), in addition to the 76 searches Google has already agreed to apply, Google shall also apply the following searches as modified and directed below:
- Incognito - allowed
- brows* /2 private* - requires further limitation; parties to meet and confer
- “privacy policy” OR “in control” OR (you* /10 control) OR “your privacy” OR “your data” - requires further limitation; parties to meet and confer
- “Sin Rastro” - requires further limitation; parties to meet and confer
- (incognito OR (brow* /3 private*) OR (private /3 mode)) /p (disclos* OR consent* OR confus* OR understand* OR mislead* OR misled) - allowed
- (incognito OR (private /3 mode) OR (private /3 brows*)) /50 (purpose OR design* OR created OR function* OR operate* OR “works to” OR see* OR visible OR hide* OR conceal* OR track* OR associate* OR disassociate* OR save* OR block* OR prevent*) - allowed
- incognito AND (“privacy policy” OR “privacy notice” OR “incognito screen” OR “new tab” OR represent* OR disclos*) - allowed
- (user* OR consumer* OR person OR people) /50 consent* /50 (data OR information) - allowed
- (incognito OR (private /3 brows*) OR (private /3 mode)) AND (launch* OR release*) AND (benefit* OR “privacy policy” OR (collect* /5 data /5 user*) OR purpose OR goal*)- allowed
- ((incognito OR (private /3 brows*) OR (private /3 mode)) AND ((data OR information) /5 collect*)- allowed
- (associate* OR association) /15 (user* OR account OR profile*)- allowed
- (MyActivity OR “My Activity” OR profile*) AND ((private /3 brows*) OR (private /3 mode) OR incognito) - allowed
- (compli* OR comply OR audit OR investigat*) /50 ((consent /3 decree) OR (consent /3 order) OR FTC OR F.T.C. OR “Federal Trade Commission”) - allowed
- (compli* OR comply) /50 (“California Consumer Privacy Act” OR CCPA OR C.C.P.A. “Europe’s General Data Privacy Regulation” OR GDPR OR G.D.P.R. OR (privacy /3 law* OR regulation*)- allowed
- (support* OR against* OR lobb*) /25 (“California Consumer Privacy Act” OR CCPA OR C.C.P.A. OR (consumer /3 privacy /3 law*))- allowed
- Apple /15 launch ((private /3 brows*) OR (private /3 mode)) - allowed
- ((private /3 brows*) OR (private /3 mode)) /15 Google* /15 power- allowed
- Apple /30 Google* /15 (track* OR collect*) /3 data- parties to continue meet and confer and provide status on 5/6/21; Google to provide hit counts
- (Brave OR Loginhood OR Killi OR BIGtoken or “Data Dividend Project” or “Nielsen”) AND (monetiz* OR value OR paid OR pay*)- parties to continue meet and confer and provide status on 5/6/21; Google to provide hit counts
- (purchase* OR sale OR sell OR market) /25 data- parties to continue meet and confer and provide status on 5/6/21; Google to provide hit counts
- market /5 power /25 (search OR browser* OR ads OR advertising) - parties to continue meet and confer and provide status on 5/6/21; Google to provide hit counts
- “user data” AND (benefit* OR (revenue* /5 (ad OR advertising) OR “market power” OR (improv* /5 product*) OR (improv* /5 service*))) AND (Analytics OR “Ad Manager”) - parties to continue meet and confer and provide status on 5/6/21; Google to provide hit counts
- (Brave OR Edge OR Opera OR Safari OR Silk OR Mozilla OR Firefox) /25 ((block* OR limit* OR stop*) /15 (“collection of data” OR “data collection” OR track*))- parties to continue meet and confer and provide status on 5/6/21; Google to provide hit counts
- ((Chasom /3 Brown) OR (Maria /3 Nguyen) OR (William /3 Byatt) OR (Jeremy /3 Davis) OR ((Chris OR Christopher) /3 Castillo) OR (incognito)) AND (lawsuit* OR complaint* OR action* OR case) - parties to continue meet and confer and provide status on 5/6/21; Google to provide hit counts
- (user* OR consumer*) /10 (control OR consent*) /15 data- parties to continue meet and confer and provide status on 5/6/21; Google to provide hit counts
- Incognito; - allowed
- private* /3 (brows* OR mode); - needs further limitation
- inPrivate - allowed
- “privacy policy” - needs further limitation
- (you OR your) /5 (control* OR privacy OR data); - allowed
- (chrome OR “privacy policy” OR “terms of service” OR “terms of use”) /p (disclos* OR consent* OR confus* OR understand* OR mislead* OR misled). - allowed