Rodriguez

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 7 ANIBAL RODRIGUEZ, et al., Case No. 20-cv-04688-RS (AGT)

Plaintiffs,

DISCOVERY ORDER RE: ESI

v. PRESERVATION DISPUTE

GOOGLE LLC, Re: Dkt. Nos. 166, 167 Defendant.

Numerous mobile apps use Google’s Firebase software; and when people use these apps, their usage data is transmitted to Google. The plaintiffs in this proposed class action used Firebase- powered apps but also turned off a particular Google data-collection feature on their phones or on Google’s website. Because they turned this feature off, they assert that Google didn’t have consent to collect their app usage data, but did so anyway. Currently at issue is a dispute that centers on the fact that Google, every 56 days, is deleting the usage data it collects from Firebase-powered apps. The plaintiffs assert that Google is destroying relevant ESI, and they seek a court order that would require Google to stop regularly deleting this data, at least until the…