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This article doesn't say what the six organizations were, which is the main contention of settlement (the fact that it was going to them, not what they are). Bu
by heyyyouu 7y ago
This article doesn't say what the six organizations were, which is the main contention of settlement (the fact that it was going to them, not what they are). But in case you were curious: AARP, World Privacy Forum, Carnegie Mellon University, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Harvard University and Stanford Law School.
Here is an article about when the Supreme Court kicked the case back to the Appellate court earlier this year, which goes a bit deeper into the legal issues behind it: https://www.geekwire.com/2019/seattle-area-att-employees-bribed-install-phone-unlocking-malware-company-network-authorities-say/ https://www.geekwire.com/2019/seattle-area-att-employees-bri...
- elliekelly 7y agoJust FYI - I don’t think that’s the link you meant to include. It looks like that’s the url for the main article from a different HN thread.
- heyyyouu 7y agoACK! You're correct! Thanks for catching that. Here's the link I meant to use: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/supreme-court-sends-consumers-suing-google-over-privacy-issues-back-to-court-2019-03-20 https://www.marketwatch.com/story/supreme-court-sends-consum...
- henryfjordan 7y agoI think who is getting the money should be as important to the case as the fact money was going to them. The legal doctrine they used to distribute the money like this is supposed to be used to benefit the class members indirectly (because giving each party a small amount of money directly would be silly). How does giving money to Stanford and Harvard help anyone?
- ocdtrekkie 7y agoWorld Privacy Forum has been on Google's "payroll", and is probably the one most likely suggested to be controversial: https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/trade_association_and_third_party_groups.pdf https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/trade_association_... And despite having a recent post about Facebook from this summer, the most recent search result on their website for "Google" is from 2014. Giving to law schools has also been a popular choice of Google's, often completely inexplicably coinciding with papers from those law schools supporting Google's legal positions, though there doesn't seem to be any overlap between the list in the link above and the universities being handed money here.
- AnimalMuppet 7y agoAARP? The American Association of Retired People? They're a "privacy group"? Did I miss something?
- squirrelicus 7y agoThey're an everything group. The single most influential vote in the world.
- Despegar 7y agoCool so no actual privacy groups like EPIC. Glad they overturned it.
- heyyyouu 7y agoI included the WRONG link - please use this instead: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/supreme-court-sends-consumers-suing-google-over-privacy-issues-back-to-court-2019-03-20 https://www.marketwatch.com/story/supreme-court-sends-consum...