Android Users Tell 9th Circuit Data-Gathering Claims Against Google Were Proper

(April 27, 2023, 9:58 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Two smartphone users tell the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in an appellant brief that a California federal judge wrongly dismissed their fraud and unfair competition claims against Google LLC for allegedly collecting data on third-party app usage via its Android operating system (OS) without notice, writing that the judge wrongly found the secure storage of their private data “not ‘central’” to the “functionality” of a smartphone....