Federal Court dismisses ACCC case alleging Google misled consumers about data-collection on non-Google sites
The Federal Court has dismissed the ACCC’s case against Google LLC, finding that the digital platform did not mislead Australian consumers about the scope of personal collected from their internet activity on non-Google website or apps.
The court proceedings were launched by the ACCC in July 2020, with the regulator alleging that Google failed to properly inform consumers nor gain their explicit informed consent when in 2016 it began combining personal information in consumers’ Google accounts with information about those individuals’ activities on non-Google sites that used Google technology to display ads.
