Privacy Policy Lessons After Google App Data Verdict

In an article published by Law360, Beth Waller, principal and chair of Woods Rogers’ Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Practice, analyzes the recent verdict of a California federal court jury trial that found Google liable for two claims involving invasion of privacy and common-law inclusion upon seclusion. The class action, Rodriguez v. Google LLC, centered on claims that the tech giant had collected user data even after consumers had turned off the tracking feature in their privacy settings.

“This privacy class action brings to the forefront the complex interplay between pseudonymization and customer understanding of privacy choices in privacy policies,” Beth wrote in the article. “The jury found that Google invaded the privacy of its users through continuing to collect, use, and disclose pseudonymized data.”

As a result, Beth encourages every business to examine its privacy policy and customer choices around pseudonymized tracking.

Read Beth’s article in the copy here (PDF) or on Law360 here.