The article mentions: a 3rd party company will scrub the data amd Google will promise not to attempt to reconstruct PII from the data.

That is good enough for me. If they violate their promise to the judge, the court can lay the hammer down on them

Good, they never break promises, so it should be fine. It also implies you can reconstruct personal information from the data. Perfect.

Maybe we can all be blessed with 2 quarters from a multi-year class action in a decade

Yes, but did they _pinky promise?_

How is the court going to ensure they stick to that promise? Or is this basically just a pinky promise?

Here, you dropped this: /s