California and New York residents have filed two separate lawsuits this
week against Google alleging that changes to the company’s privacy
policy violate users’ privacy rights. The suits seek class-action
status.
The New York lawsuit, the text of which is available on The Los Angeles Times Web site,
says the change in Google’s guidelines enacted March 1 “violates
Google’s prior privacy policies, which deceived and misled consumers by
stating that Google would not utilize information provided by a consumer
in connection with his or her use of one service, with any other
service, for any reason, without the consumer’s consent.”
