UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 RODRIGUEZ, et al., Case No. 20-cv-04688-RS Plaintiffs, 11 v. ORDER GRANTING IN PART & DENYING IN PART MOTION TO
GOOGLE LLC, DISMISS
13 Defendant.
I. INTRODUCTION Defendant Google LLC (“Google”) is in the business of collecting internet users’ data. Of the many ways it plies this trade, one entails providing services to the developers of third-party internet applications. Anibal Rodriguez, JulieAnna Muniz, and seven other named plaintiffs (together, “plaintiffs”) are internet users—and, more particularly, users of third-party apps to which Google provides services. Seeking putative classwide relief under the federal Wiretap Act and California law, they claim Google’s relationship with these apps results in illegal data collection. This argument runs down two independent narrative tracks: in plaintiffs’ view, Google’s liability flows from both (i) Google…