[USA] GOOGLE COOKIE PLACEMENT CONSUMER PRIVACY LITIGATION

Holdings:

As the activated cookie blocker equates, to an express, clearly communicated denial of consent for installation of cookies, Google has “intruded upon reasonable expectations of privacy.”

Rules:

• Whether or not data-based targeting is the internet's pole star, users are entitled to deny consent, and they are entitled to rely on the public promises of the companies they deal with.
• by way of a deceitful override of the plaintiffs' cookie blockers, marks the serious invasion of privacy contemplated by California law.