A federal jury in San Francisco has ordered Google to pay 425 million in damages for violating users privacy by continuing to collect data even after they had switched off a key tracking feature.
The verdict, delivered on Wednesday, followed a trial in which Google was accused of harvesting data through its setting over an eight-year period, despite assurances to users that turning it off would stop tracking.
The lawsuit, filed in July 2020, was certified as a class action covering 98 million Google users and 174 million devices. Plaintiffs initially sought more than 31 billion in damages.
