Chrome Users’ Subpoena On Google’s Auditor Trimmed In Data-Sharing Privacy Suit

Mealey's (November 19, 2021, 2:32 PM EST) -- SAN JOSE, Calif. — Partly granting Google LLC’s motion for a protective order on Nov. 16, a California federal magistrate judge found that five of the 10 requests for production (RFPs) served on the tech company’s financial auditor, Ernst & Young LLC (E&Y), were overbroad and irrelevant to the privacy and other claims brought by plaintiffs suing over purported gathering and sharing of their personally identifiable information (PII) by Google’s Chrome web browser....