Michael Gennaro reports:
Hoping for a dismissal, Google told a federal judge Thursday that it did not deliberately track, collect and monetize private health information from health care websites and that it could not control if a third-party, such as a health care web provider, sent sensitive information to Google despite Google’s warnings.
In a 2023 class action, the group of patients claimed that Google used its source code on health care provider websites to collect sensitive health information without their knowledge or consent, violating state and federal law as well as Google’s own terms of service.
At the motion to dismiss hearing Thursday, Eduardo Santacana, counsel for Google, told U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria, a Barack Obama appointee, that the complaint should be dismissed with prejudice because the plaintiffs have not adequately claimed that Google intended to track and collect the information.
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h/t, Joe Cadillic