The $5 billion lawsuit was filed in 2020 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and covered "millions" of Google consumers, claiming damages of $5,000 per user or three times actual damages, depending on what was greater.
The lawsuit stated that Anil Varshney "scared" his colleague because he couldn't understand what the former was communicating. The coworker then "falsely and intentionally" reported the incident to the police
The lawsuit filed by X-Corp explains data scraping as “a form of unauthorised data collection that uses automation and other processes to harvest data from a website or a mobile application."
Johnson & Johnson offered to pay $9 billion to settle tens of thousands of lawsuits that alleged that its baby powder and other talc-based products cause cancer.