In re Google RTB Consumer Privacy Litigation

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 IN RE GOOGLE RTB CONSUMER Case No. 21-cv-02155-YGR (VKD)

PRIVACY LITIGATION

ORDER RE FURTHER PROCEEDINGS

FOR RESOLUTION OF DISPUTES RE GOOGLE'S PRIVILEGE CLAIMS

12 The Court has considered the parties’ joint status report regarding the remaining disputes concerning Google’s privilege claims and their respective proposals for resolving those disputes. Dkt. No. 454. According to the report, plaintiffs continue to dispute over 5,000 of Google’s 10,525 privilege log entries. Plaintiffs’ principal contention is that it cannot determine from the information in Google’s privilege logs whether the disputed claims of privilege or protection are proper. The Court agrees with plaintiffs that Google’s privilege entries generally do not provide sufficient information for the Court to assess the merits of Google’s claim that a logged document is privileged or protected from disclosure. As the Court has previously observed, many of Google’s privilege…