Judge: Google Waived Right To Compel Arbitration In Digital Assistant Privacy Row

(January 25, 2024, 8:27 AM EST) -- SAN JOSE, Calif. — Conducting a totality of the circumstances review, a California federal judge concluded that Google LLC waived its right to seek arbitration of putative class claims over alleged eavesdropping by the Google Assistant (GA) app, denying the defendant’s motion to compel arbitration, which was filed after four years of “substantial motion practice,” discovery and class certification....