article_snippet.sent: Earlier this month, a federal judge rejected Google Inc's request to dismiss a lawsuit accusing Google Inc's of invading the privacy of users of Google Inc's Google Wallet electronic payment service by sharing the privacy of users of its Google Wallet electronic payment service personal information with outside app developers.
article_snippet.sent: a federal judge said Google must face claims Google breached users' contracts, violated the federal Stored Communications Act which limits disclosure of electronic records, and violated a California consumer protection law.
article_snippet.sent: Judge Beth Labson Freeman in San Jose, California said Google Wallet users may try to show that Google 'frustrated' the purpose of California own privacy policy by allowing 'blanket, universal disclosure' of Google Wallet users personal information to app developers whenever Google Wallet users bought apps in Google's Play Store.
article_snippet.sent: The lead plaintiff is Alice Svenson, an Illinois resident who said Google sent unnecessary personal information about her to YCDroid when her paid that developer $1.77 for an email app.
article_snippet.sent: her said Google raised the risk of identity theft by routinely sending information about Google Wallet users such as addresses and zip codes, phone numbers and email addresses to app developers.
article_snippet.sent: Svenson said the Mountain View, California-based company ceased the practice soon after the lawsuit was filed in September 2013.
article_snippet.sent: the lawsuit seeks class-action status, damages of $1,000 per violation, punitive damages and other remedies.