{"id":145370,"date":"2015-04-02T22:36:38","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T22:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=145370"},"modified":"2015-04-02T22:36:38","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T22:36:38","slug":"google-fails-to-dismiss-privacy-lawsuit-over-google-wallet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/sicence-technology\/google-fails-to-dismiss-privacy-lawsuit-over-google-wallet\/","title":{"rendered":"Google fails to dismiss privacy lawsuit over Google Wallet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a decision on Wednesday night, U.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman in San Jose, California said Google must face claims it breached users&#8217; contracts; breached an obligation to deal with users fairly and in good faith; and violated a California consumer protection law. She dismissed two other claims.<\/p>\n<p>Freeman said Google Wallet users may try to show that Google &#8220;frustrated&#8221; the purpose of its own privacy policy by allowing &#8220;blanket, universal disclosure&#8221; of their personal information to app developers whenever they bought apps in Google&#8217;s Play Store.<\/p>\n<p>The lead plaintiff is Alice Svenson, an Illinois resident who said Google sent unnecessary personal information about her to YCDroid when she paid that developer $1.77 for an email app.<\/p>\n<p>She said Google raised the risk of identity theft by routinely sending information aboutGoogle Wallet users such as addresses and zip codes, phone numbers and email addresses to app developers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/04\/02\/google-wallet-lawsuit-idUKL2N0WZ0QT20150402?rpc=401\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a decision on Wednesday night, U.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman in San Jose, California said Google must face claims it breached users&#8217; contracts; breached an obligation to deal with users fairly and in good faith; and violated a California consumer protection law. She dismissed two other claims. Freeman said Google Wallet users may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-145370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-sicence-technology","9":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}