In re Google RTB Consumer Privacy Litigation

I. BACKGROUND

20 This dispute concerns four documents, now identified as follows: 21 Entry # Bates Number Privilege Description 22 10495 GOOG-HEWT-00105248 Presentation containing and reflecting legal advice of William Malcolm* regarding regulatory issues prepared in connection with regulatory investigation. 10494 GOOG -HEWT-00130534 Memorandum reflecting legal advice of product counsel regarding policy compliance. 26 9373; GOOG- HEWT-00136858; Notes seeking and reflecting legal advice of Uchechi 27 9741 GOOG- HEWT-00370004 Chima-okereke* regarding privacy issues Id. at 1. Google produced these documents to plaintiffs, but later decided that the documents contained privileged or work product information. On December 5, 2022, Google served a “clawback notice” pursuant to the Court’s Rule 502(d) order (Dkt. No. 285), followed by a privilege log describing the clawed back documents and re-producing three of them with redactions. Id., Ex. A. Plaintiffs challenge the sufficiency of this notice and Google’s subsequent privilege log. Plaintiffs also dispute the merits of Google’s …