A U.S. judge ruled that people who accused Google of illegally collecting their personal information after they chose not to synchronize their Google Chrome browsers with their Google accounts, cannot sue the Alphabet unit as a group in a class action. U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, California, dismissed the proposed damages class action with prejudice, meaning it cannot be brought again. She also said Chrome users cannot seek policy changes as a group https://reut.rs/43E4MKP