{"id":988446,"date":"2026-01-29T08:40:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988446"},"modified":"2026-01-29T08:45:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:15:49","slug":"google-to-pay-135-million-to-settle-android-data-transfer-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/29\/google-to-pay-135-million-to-settle-android-data-transfer-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Google to pay $135 million to settle Android data transfer lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google will pay $135 million to settle a proposed \u200dclass action by smartphone users who accused Google of programming its Android operating \u2060system to collect their cellular data without permission. <\/p>\n<p>A preliminary settlement with the Alphabet unit was filed late Tuesday night in the San Jose, California, federal court, and \u200crequires a \u200cjudge&#8217;s approval. <\/p>\n<p>Google denied wrongdoing in agreeing to the settlement, which covers users of Android-powered mobile \u200cdevices since November 12, 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google will pay $135 million to settle a proposed \u200dclass action by smartphone users who accused Google of programming its Android operating \u2060system to collect their cellular data without permission. A preliminary settlement with the Alphabet unit was filed late Tuesday night in the San Jose, California, federal court, and \u200crequires a \u200cjudge&#8217;s approval. Google denied wrongdoing in agreeing to the settlement, which covers users of Android-powered mobile \u200cdevices since November 12, 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988446","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}