A federal jury determined on Wednesday that the alphabet’s Google must pay $ 425 million to invade users’ intimacy by continuing to collect data on millions of users who had turned off a tracking feature on their Google account.
The verdict comes after a trial in the Federal Court in San Francisco on charges that Google has for an eight -year period entered the mobile equipment of users to collect, save and use their data, violating intimacy insurance under defining its internet and app.
Users had demanded more than $ 31 billion of damage.
The jury found Google responsible for two of the three claims of intimacy violations brought by the plaintiffs.
The jury revealed that Google had not acted with malice, meaning that he was not eligible for punitive injuries.
A Google spokesman confirmed the judgment.
Google had denied any wrongdoing.
The classroom action lawsuit, filed in July 2020, claimed that Google continued to collect user data even by defining it through its relationship with applications such as Uber, Venmo and Meta Instagram that use some Google Analytics services.
At trial, Google said the data collected were “non -government, nicknames and stored in separate, secured and encrypted places”.
Google said the data was not related to the Google user accounts or the identity of an individual user.
US District Judge Richard Seeborg confirmed the case as a class action that includes about 98 million Google users and 174 million devices.
Google has faced other lawsuits of intimacy, including one earlier this year, where he paid nearly $ 1.4 billion in a deal with Texas on allegations that the company violated state laws.
Google in April 2024 agreed to destroy billions of record data from the user’s private browsing activities to resolve a lawsuit claiming they traced people who thought they were browsing privately, including in “Incognito” mode.
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