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

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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.
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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
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:

  1. Incognito - allowed
  2. brows* /2 private* - requires further limitation; parties to meet and confer
  3. “privacy policy” OR “in control” OR (you* /10 control) OR “your privacy” OR “your data” - requires further limitation; parties to meet and confer
  4. “Sin Rastro” - requires further limitation; parties to meet and confer
  5. (incognito OR (brow* /3 private*) OR (private /3 mode)) /p (disclos* OR consent* OR confus* OR understand* OR mislead* OR misled) - allowed
  6. (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
  7. incognito AND (“privacy policy” OR “privacy notice” OR “incognito screen” OR “new tab” OR represent* OR disclos*) - allowed
  8. (user* OR consumer* OR person OR people) /50 consent* /50 (data OR information) - allowed
  9. (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
  10. ((incognito OR (private /3 brows*) OR (private /3 mode)) AND ((data OR information) /5 collect*)- allowed
  11. (associate* OR association) /15 (user* OR account OR profile*)- allowed
  12. (MyActivity OR “My Activity” OR profile*) AND ((private /3 brows*) OR (private /3 mode) OR incognito) - allowed
  13. (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
  14. (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
  15. (support* OR against* OR lobb*) /25 (“California Consumer Privacy Act” OR CCPA OR C.C.P.A. OR (consumer /3 privacy /3 law*))- allowed
  16. Apple /15 launch ((private /3 brows*) OR (private /3 mode)) - allowed
  17. ((private /3 brows*) OR (private /3 mode)) /15 Google* /15 power- allowed
  18. 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
  19. (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
  20. (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
  21. 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
  22. “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
  23. (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
  24. ((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
  25. (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
For the five Court-ordered custodians (Dkt. 133-1) for which Google is to collect and produce documents from June 1, 2014 to the present (Unni Narayanan, Jan Hannemman, Eric Miraglia, Rahul Chowdhury, and Stephan Micklitz), and for the two Court-ordered custodians for which Google to collect and produce documents from June 1, 2008 through December 31, 2010 (Sundar Pichai and Brian Rakowski), Google shall use only the following searches as modified or directed:

  1. Incognito; - allowed
  2. private* /3 (brows* OR mode); - needs further limitation
  3. inPrivate - allowed
  4. “privacy policy” - needs further limitation
  5. (you OR your) /5 (control* OR privacy OR data); - allowed
  6. (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
SO ORDERED.