Google Need to pay $425 million The federal jury decided that for the plaintiffs in the class action lawsuit, the lawsuit accused the company of collecting user data even if the tracking function was turned off. The chief plaintiff sued Google in July 2020, saying the company still harvested data, even if it told users that tracking could be disabled under Web&App activity through contact with other apps such as Uber and Instagram. U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg then proved the lawsuit as a class action involving 98 million Google users and 174 million devices.
The plaintiff’s attorney demanded $31 billion in damages, but the jury found that Google was liable for two of the three claims for privacy violations. The jury found that Google did not violate the California Integrated Computer Data Access and Fraud Act, nor did it act maliciously. As a result, the jury concluded that the plaintiff was not entitled to any punitive damages.
In a statement, Google spokesperson Jose Castaneda explain The decision is “misunderstood” [their] He added that the company’s privacy tools can give users control over their data and insist that Google respects people’s choice to turn off personalization. Castaneda said Google plans to appeal.
The company has faced several similar privacy lawsuits in the past. Another 2020 lawsuit accusing Google of Track users in invisible modeand the company Agree to resolve $5 billion lawsuit in 2023. A year later, admit It does collect Incognito and Promise to destroy Billions of data were collected from Stealth Tracking to resolve complaints.
