Google's attempt to dismiss a privacy lawsuit claiming the company collected personal data from users' devices despite disabled tracking settings was denied by a federal judge.

The recent lawsuit against Google accuses the former of continuing data hoarding or collection in violation of user choices. Google failed to convince a federal judge to dismiss out a class action lawsuit claiming the company gathered personal and sensitive data from users' phones even after disabling tracking, which paves way for a potential trial sometime in August.

Users of Android as well as non-Android phones accused Google of violating their privacy. They claimed the company broke a law by the California state that protects against unauthorized computer access by secretly intercepting and saving their browsing history without consent.

The judge overlooking this case, Chief Richard Seeborg of the federal court in San Francisco, dismissed the claims about Google properly explaining how its Web & App Activity settings functioned and that the users had consented to the tracking.

In a ruling on Tuesday, Seeborg stated that anyone could find Google’s actions "highly offensive" because the company continued collecting data despite concerns raised by employees. He pointed to internal communications that indicated Google intentionally made it unclear whether data was collected inside or outside Google accounts, fearing users might find the truth ‘alarming’.

Four months prior, Google agreed to delete billions of data records to settle a lawsuit stating it tracked users who believed they were browsing privately, including using Chrome's ‘Incognito’ mode. The law firms handling that case, which was valued at over $5 billion, are also representing the plaintiffs in the current lawsuit.