Northern District of California Approves $6 Million TCPA Text Settlement between Consumers and Google

On May 27, 2011, two individuals filed a class action lawsuit against Google and its then-recently acquired subsidiary, Slide,  alleging that the companies violated the TCPA by sending text messages to cell phone’s without the consumer’s consent.    Google and Slide had just released a “group texting” tool, called “Disco,” that allows an individual to send text message to a large group of people using one cell phone number provided by Disco.  According to the complaint, the program allowed messages to be sent through the program without consent, and would only prevent messages once a person affirmatively opted out.  The problems compounded, according to the complaint, when one unwilling recipient continued to receive hundreds of text messages from other confused recipients, wondering who was sending the text, and why.

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