Google faces consumer complaints in Union courts in New York and California which claim that its Modern secrecy policy violates the party ’s earlier policies which promised that selective information supply by a exploiter for one service would not be used by another service without the consumer ’s consent .
The Web services fellowship is being charged in both case for violations of the Federal Wiretap Act , for froward interception of communications and collection of personal information of its consumers for fiscal welfare , and the Stored Electronic Communications Act for exceeding its authorized entree to consumer communication theory stored on its systems . Google is also charged with violation of the Computer Fraud Abuse Act , and other counts including state law .
The plaintiffs in both suit seek to bring nationwide family action mechanism on behalf of holders of Google write up and possessor of Android devices from Aug. 19 , 2004 to Feb. 29 , 2012 , who continued to assert the Google news report and own the devices after the new privacy policy came into effect on March 1 this year .
The party ’s new privacy insurance is already under scrutiny inthe European Unionand in the U.S. , where 36 state attorneys generalswroteto Google CEO Larry Page last calendar month saying that Google ’s new insurance does not give users a sufficient chance to prefer out .
The new privacy insurance policy treats the person as a single user across all Google products , and selective information provided from one service may be combine with information from other help , Googlesaid .
In asuit filed beforethe U.S District Court for the Northern District of California , San Jose Division on Tuesday , Robert B. DeMars and Lorena Barrios said they were required to fructify up their Gmail story when they acquired mobile devices powered by Android .
Google has not only conflate the information across merchandise , but also not provided consumer with an easy and efficient way to opt out , the complainant said . “ Consumers must wangle their privacy setting for each Google product they apply ; a universal opt - out function is not available , ” the charge articulate .
“ We have no comment at this time on these lawsuits , ” said Google spokesman Chris Gaither . “ We have not yet been serve with them . ”
The plaintiff also asked for an universal opt out installation from sharing selective information across Google ’ service , allot to acopy of the complaintwith theLos Angeles Times .
