{"id":959388,"date":"2025-09-04T12:07:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T06:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=959388"},"modified":"2025-09-04T12:07:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T06:37:16","slug":"data-snooping-google-hit-with-425m-verdict-accused-of-tracking-users-case-covers-98m-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/04\/data-snooping-google-hit-with-425m-verdict-accused-of-tracking-users-case-covers-98m-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Data snooping: Google hit with $425m verdict, accused of tracking users; case covers 98m people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal jury has ordered Alphabet\u2019s Google to pay $425 million after finding the company violated users\u2019 privacy by continuing to collect data even when millions had switched off a key tracking feature.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019 information over eight years, despite privacy assurances tied to its &#8216;Web &amp; App Activity&#8217; setting. Plaintiffs had sought more than $31 billion in damages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal jury has ordered Alphabet\u2019s Google to pay $425 million after finding the company violated users\u2019 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\u2019 information over eight years, despite privacy assurances tied to its &#8216;Web &amp; App Activity&#8217; setting. Plaintiffs had sought more than $31 billion in damages.<\/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":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-959388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959388","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=959388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}