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Google's $23M search privacy settlement On January 5, 2023, Google agreed to pay $23 million to resolve a consolidated, California-based class-action lawsuit, ing to Bloomberg Law. The court case has been winding its way through litigation for 12 years.

Google agreed to pay $23 million to settle a 2013 class action lawsuit accusing the tech company of violating user privacy.

Anyone who clicked on a Google search result link from October 2006 to September 2013 is entitled to a piece ? however small ? of a $23 million settlement that the tech giant has agreed to pay to resolve a class-action lawsuit. The settlement's administrators set up a website for people to submit claims.

You may be owed money if you used Google between 2006 and 2013. The technology company has agreed to a $23 million settlement to resolve a user privacy class-action lawsuit. Eligible individuals can submit a claim to collect payment through July 31, 2023.

How to claim Google settlement money. Before you make a claim, you'll need to register a ?class member ID? via the settlement administrator handling claims. Once you've received your ID number from the administrator, enter it in the ?submit claim? page of the settlement's website.

Google agreed to a $23 million settlement to resolve claims it shared search queries with third-party websites and companies without user consent.

Settlement privilege is premised on the public policy goal of encouraging the settlement of disputes without the need to resort to litigation. The protection afforded by settlement privilege is intended to allow parties to freely discuss and offer terms of settlement in an attempt to reach a compromise.

The Court first reiterated that settlement communications are not privileged. Instead, the inquiry must focus on California Code of Civil Procedure section 2017.010--i.e., whether the information is relevant or reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence.

Cal. Apr. 28, 2015) (While any confidential settlement communications are undoubtedly inadmissible at trial to prove liability or the amount of Plaintiffs' claim, such communications may be admissible for other purposes, such as disputing a claim of undue delay.).

Confidentiality protection in settlement negotiations comes from Evidence Code Section 1152. Section 1152 states that evidence of a compromise or offer of compromise is inadmissible to prove liability for loss or damage. The protections of Section 1152 extend to conduct and statements made in negotiation of an offer.