Google ordered payment of $ 425 million US for privacy violations in class-action case
An American federal jury on Wednesday determined that Google of the alphabet would have to pay a $ 425 million US to attack users’ confidentiality to collect data for millions of users who had shut down a tracking facility in their Google account.
The decision comes after a test in the federal court in San Francisco that Google accessed users’ mobile devices over a period of eight years to collect their data to violate the privacy assurance under their web and app activity settings to collect their data.
User was asking us over $ 31 billion in losses.
The jury found Google responsible for two of the three claims of secrecy violations brought by the plaintiff. The jury found that Google did not work with malice, which means that it was not entitled to any punitive loss.
A Google spokesperson confirmed the decision. Google denied any wrongdoing.
Class-action sued filed in July 2020, claimed that Google continued to collect the data of users with the settings through its relationship with apps such as Uber, Venmo and Meta, which also uses some Google Analytics services.
In the trial, Google stated that the collected data was “non -worthy, pseudo -name, and was stored in separate, safe and encrypted places.” Google said that data was not associated with users’ Google accounts or any individual user’s identity.
US District Judge Richard Ciborg certified the case as a class action, which includes around 98 million Google users and 174 million devices.
Google has faced other privacy cases, including a single one earlier this year, where it has paid around $ 1.4 billion in an agreement with Texas, in which the company violated the state’s privacy laws.
In April 2024, Google agreed to destroy the billions of data records of private browsing activities of users to settle a trial, alleging that it tracks people who thought they were browsing privately, including “Incoanito” modes.
