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A lawsuit filed against Google by consumers who claimed the search engine's photo sharing and storage service violated their privacy was dismissed on Saturday by a U.S. judge who cited a lack of "concrete injuries."
U.S. District Judge Edmond Chang in Chicago granted a Google motion for summary judgment, saying the court lacked "subject matter jurisdiction because plaintiffs have not suffered concrete injuries."
The suit, filed in March 2016, alleged Alphabet Inc's Google violated Illinois state law by collecting and storing biometric data from people's photographs using facial recognition software without their permission through its Google Photos service.
[...] Google had argued in court documents that the plaintiffs were not entitled to money or injunctive relief because they had suffered no harm. The case is Rivera v Google, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, No. 16-02714.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 05 2019, @01:34AM
"Man, i just keep wishing one of these idiot judges get bitten by their own decisions"
They probably have, which is why the judges always side with the perps. Of course the only people who would know are the judge, a few Google employees, and the hooker who took the photo.
Which is to say that the damage is intrinsic to the empowerment of corporations over public adjudication. The threat is not just to the privacy of the citizen, but to the integrity of the law itself. And that we ALL have not just a right, but a duty to defend.