{"id":228574,"date":"2026-03-27T21:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T01:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/google-ad-privacy-deal-okd-but-128m-fee-bid-cut-to-22m\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T12:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T16:20:18","slug":"google-ad-privacy-deal-okd-but-128m-fee-bid-cut-to-22m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/google-ad-privacy-deal-okd-but-128m-fee-bid-cut-to-22m\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Ad Privacy Deal OK&#8217;d, But $128M Fee Bid Cut To $22M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2458746\/google-ad-privacy-deal-ok-d-but-128m-fee-bid-cut-to-22m\">Google Ad Privacy Deal OK&#8217;d, But $128M Fee Bid Cut To $22M<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2458746\/google-ad-privacy-deal-ok-d-but-128m-fee-bid-cut-to-22m\">https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2458746\/google-ad-privacy-deal-ok-d-but-128m-fee-bid-cut-to-22m<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-27 21:03:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.law360.com\">www.law360.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Dorothy Atkins ( March 27, 2026,  9:03 PM EDT) &#8212; A California federal judge on Thursday approved Google&#8217;s nonmonetary deal resolving allegations it sells consumers&#8217; personal data in fast-paced digital ad auctions without their consent, but slashed class counsel&#8217;s $128 million fee request to $21.8 million due to their &#8220;speculative&#8221; settlement-value estimates, &#8220;limited success&#8221; and numerous billing &#8220;errors and inefficiencies.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3>Law360 is on it, so you are, too.<\/h3>\n<p>A Law360 subscription puts you at the center of fast-moving legal issues, trends and developments so you can act with speed and confidence. Over 200 articles are published daily across more than 60 topics, industries, practice areas and jurisdictions.<\/p>\n<p>A Law360 subscription includes features such as<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Daily newsletters<\/li>\n<li>Expert analysis<\/li>\n<li>Mobile app<\/li>\n<li>Advanced search<\/li>\n<li>Judge information<\/li>\n<li>Real-time alerts<\/li>\n<li>450K+ searchable archived articles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And more!<\/p>\n<p class=\"try-free\">Experience Law360 today with a free 7-day trial.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2458746\/google-ad-privacy-deal-ok-d-but-128m-fee-bid-cut-to-22m\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Ad Privacy Deal OK&#8217;d, But $128M Fee Bid Cut To $22M https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2458746\/google-ad-privacy-deal-ok-d-but-128m-fee-bid-cut-to-22m Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":228575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/images\/law360-stacked.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228576,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228574\/revisions\/228576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}