User privacy lawsuit against Google gets dismissal on most claims

User privacy lawsuit against Google gets dismissal on most claims

Google's European Engineering Center in Zurich. Photo: REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

A U.S. appeals court upheld the dismissal of federal claims and revived two California state law claims accusing Google of invading computer users’ privacy by enabling the placement of “cookies” in their browsers to track their Internet use.

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