Summary
A U.S. federal court ordered Google to pay $425 million for violating users' privacy by collecting data even after tracking was turned off. The lawsuit involves data collection practices affecting millions of devices. Google plans to appeal the decision, stating that their products did not misuse user data.
Key Facts
- A U.S. court ordered Google to pay $425 million for privacy violations.
- The case was about Google collecting data even when users disabled a tracking feature.
- Users sought more than $31 billion in damages.
- The jury found Google liable for two out of three privacy claims.
- The lawsuit represents about 98 million users and 174 million devices.
- Google argues that data collected does not identify individual users.
- Google plans to appeal the court's decision.
- This week, Google’s parent company, Alphabet, saw a share increase following a separate court ruling related to its Chrome web browser.
