Non-Gmail Users’ Settlement Of Privacy Claims Against Google Gets Initial OK

Mealey's (September 5, 2017, 1:27 PM EDT) -- SAN JOSE, Calif. — The second attempt to settle a putative class action between Google Inc. and a class of non-Gmail users achieved preliminary approval on Aug. 31, with a California federal judge deeming the proposed settlement of privacy claims related to Google’s scanning of non-Gmail users’ emails to be “fundamentally fair, adequate and reasonable” (Daniel Matera, et al. v. Google Inc., No. 5:15-cv-04062, N.D. Calif.)....