The federal judge overseeing the long-running civil litigation over claims that Google’s Street View vehicles snooped on unencrypted WiFi networks at the turn of the last decade grappled with objections to a proposed $13 million class action settlement the company has proposed. 

U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer of the Northern District of California called the matter before him “a paradigmatic case of injury and non-ascertainable damages” at a fairness hearing Friday over the proposed deal, a so-called cy pres settlement that would provide no direct payout to class members.

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