Data snooping: Google hit with $425m verdict, accused of tracking users; case covers 98m people
A federal jury has ordered Alphabet’s Google to pay $425 million after finding the company violated users’ privacy by continuing to collect data even when millions had switched off a key tracking feature.
The verdict, delivered on Wednesday in a San Francisco court, followed a class-action lawsuit filed in July 2020, which alleged that Google had gathered and stored users’ information over eight years, despite privacy assurances tied to its ‘Web & App Activity’ setting. Plaintiffs had sought more than $31 billion in damages.
