{"id":943462,"date":"2025-07-03T11:40:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T06:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=943462"},"modified":"2025-07-03T11:40:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T06:10:51","slug":"google-ordered-to-pay-over-314-million-to-android-users-in-california-for-stealing-mobile-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/03\/google-ordered-to-pay-over-314-million-to-android-users-in-california-for-stealing-mobile-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Google ordered to pay over $314 million to Android users in California for \u2018stealing\u2019 mobile data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has been ordered to pay over $314.6 million to Android smartphone users in California after a state court in San Jose ruled in favour of the plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit. The jury agreed with claims that Google was liable for sending and receiving information from Android devices without users\u2019 permission while the devices were idle. According to the lawsuit, this amounted to \u201cmandatory and unavoidable burdens shouldered by Android device users for Google\u2019s benefit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The suit further claimed that Google programmed Android phones to transfer data to its servers when users were not connected to a Wi-Fi network, effectively using data that customers were paying for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has been ordered to pay over $314.6 million to Android smartphone users in California after a state court in San Jose ruled in favour of the plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit. The jury agreed with claims that Google was liable for sending and receiving information from Android devices without users\u2019 permission while the devices were idle. According to the lawsuit, this amounted to \u201cmandatory and unavoidable burdens shouldered by Android device users for Google\u2019s benefit.\u201d The suit further claimed that Google programmed Android phones to transfer data to its servers when users were not connected to a Wi-Fi network, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-943462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}