Google defeats bid for billions of dollars of new penalties in US privacy class action
Alphabet’s Google persuaded a federal judge in San Francisco on Friday to reject a bid by consumers for more than $2 billion in penalties over the company’s past collection of data from users who had switched off a key privacy setting.
Chief US District Judge Richard Seeborg denied the request to order Google to disgorge $2.36 billion in alleged profits and to stop certain ad-related data practices.
