A federal jury ordered Google to pay $ 425.7 million for the penetration of users’ privacy by collecting data over a period of eight years from millions of people who had eliminated a tracking function in their Google account.
The judgment on Wednesday in San Francisco comes after a test in a Class-Action case that applies to around 98 million users in the US between 1 July 2016 and 23 September 2024. The jury discovered that the company had spied on users contrary to the privacy laws in California.
Google denied that it was incorrect access to devices to collect, store and use data from people who believed they had protected their online activity with privacy controls.
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A federal jury ordered Google to pay $ 425.7 million for the invading of users’ privacy. (Reuters / Reuters -photos)
“This decision wrongly understands how our products work,” said Google spokesperson Jose Castaneda in a statement to Reuters. “Our privacy tools give people control over their data, and when they disable personalization, we honor that choice.”
Castaneda said that the company intends to appeal against the verdict.
The Class Action right was brought in and accused Google of gathering data on users who had engaged privacy controls.
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Google said it is planning to appeal against the verdict. (Marlena Sloss / Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty images)
During the test, Google said that the data collected “non -personal, pseudonym and stored in separate, secure and encrypted locations were.”
The company claimed that the data was not linked to the Google accounts of users or the identity of a user.
Lawyer David Boies, who represented the users, said in a statement that they “were clearly very happy with the verdict that the jury returned.”
The Class Action right was brought in and accused Google of gathering data on users who had engaged privacy controls. (Tayfun Coskun / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images / Getty Images)
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Google has been beaten with other lawsuits for privacy violations, including an earlier this year in which it agreed to pay nearly $ 1.4 billion in a settlement with Texas due to allegations of violating the privacy laws of the state.
Last year the company agreed to destroy billions of data records from the private -brown activities of users to arrange a lawsuit that accused people who believed they were browsing private, including in the “Incognito” mode.
Reuters has contributed to this report.
