Google scores ‘$2 billion victory’ in privacy lawsuit: What the judge said

Google has scored a major legal win when a federal judge rejected a bid by consumers for more than $2 billion in penalties related to the company’s collection of user data from individuals who had disabled a key privacy setting. Chief US District Judge Richard Seeborg denied the plaintiffs’ request to order Google to to pay $2.36 billion in alleged profits and cease certain advertising-related data practices.

What the customers alleged and how Google responded