Clickable Consent Tested as Google Targeted on Privacy: Tech
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The world’s biggest Web companies are lining up at the courtroom of a California federal judge whose rulings could further inflame the widening debate over online privacy and how the Internet giants use personal data.
Google Inc., LinkedIn Corp. and Yahoo! Inc. are all being sued by customers who say the companies unfairly appropriated their personal information for profit. The lawsuits have landed before U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh in San Jose, who in September rattled Google -- and became a hero to some privacy advocates -- when she said the company wasn’t disclosing clearly enough its plans for the user information it harvests.