Google Wins Dismissal of Suit Over Web Browser Cookies

Phil Milford reports that Google won dismissal of  In re Google Cookie Placement Consumer Privacy Litigation, 12-md-02358, U.S. District Court, District of Delaware:

“Google did not intercept contents as provided for by the Wiretap Act,” U.S. District Judge Sue L. Robinson in Wilmington, Delaware, said in her opinion. The users also didn’t “demonstrate that Google intercepted any ‘contents or meaning’” under California’s Invasion of Privacy Act, she said. Nor did the users identify “any impairment of the performance or functioning of their computers,” the judge wrote.

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