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Although the situation is ideal for class action, federal law caps the penalty at $500,000 for class action and so depending on the number of class members the amount I'd get as a class representative is likely less than what I'd get in an individual case.

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So you don't really care about others, just yourself. A class action, could gain you near nothing but cost Google millions, or you could gain 10k and google could lose 10k.

Uh, if the class action damages cap is 500k then it’s only worth 500k to Google…

I am very glad the OP is pursuing action at all; it is far too easy to simply let violations of the law slide (and companies work hard to make it so). He deserves praise for that. The few of us who go through this stressful months or years-long journey deserve all the support we can give them. We should try to avoid giving petty, selfish critiques from the backseat.

I do get why you might feel that way, but first by me going alone it doesn't prevent someone else from filing a class action.

Yeah that's incredibly selfish. Is the point to hit Google for acting antisocially and doing this same song and dance potentially with anyone, or just to get compensated for the brazen demands on your apparently extremely valuable time?

Both. Regardless of the route, they would change their practices and the law does allow for equitable relief to get them to stop doing the action.

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