$23 Million Google Referrer Header Privacy Suit Settlement Gets Final OK

Mealey's (October 19, 2023, 10:57 AM EDT) -- SAN JOSE, Calif. — More than eight years after approving an initial $8.5 million settlement with Google LLC in a consolidated privacy class action that subsequently went to the U.S. Supreme Court and back, a California federal judge granted final approval to a revised settlement, now valued at $23 million, of claims over alleged data-sharing by the referrer headers associated with Google’s search engine....