Class Claims Over Purported Eavesdropping By Google Assistant Mostly Dismissed

Mealey's (May 18, 2020, 8:28 PM EDT) -- SAN JOSE, Calif. — A California federal judge on May 6 mostly granted Google LLC’s motion to dismiss a putative class complaint alleging unauthorized interception and retention of users’ conversations via its Google Assistant (GA) app, largely disposing of privacy, contractual and unfair competition claims for failure to sufficiently allege specifics about the purportedly collected communications (In re Google Assistant Privacy Litigation, No. 5:19-cv-04286, N.D. Calif.; 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 80971)....