Android user chucks potential $10bn+ sueball at Google over 'spying', 'harvesting data'... this time to build supposed rival to TikTok called 'Shorts'

Android user chucks potential $10bn+ sueball at Google over 'spying', 'harvesting data'... this time to build supposed rival to TikTok called 'Shorts'

Google "abuses Android OS to obtain a competitive advantage", according to a lawsuit filed this week alleging that the Alphabet offshoot "secretively monitored and collected users' sensitive personal data" to develop apps to compete with TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram.


The putative class-action suit, filed on Wednesday in the Northern district of California [PDF] also alleged that Google was gathering info from TikTok specifically in order to "unfairly compete against TikTok [with a] competing video platform app called 'Shorts'."


Just yesterday, US president Donald Trump issued two executive orders banning made-in-China-but-only-operating-outside-of-it app TikTok, along with Chinese messaging service WeChat.


This week's sueball cited a recent report android chucks potential sueball google spying harvesting build supposed rival tiktok called shorts