A federal jury decided Wednesday that Google d’Alphabet was due to pay $ 425 million to invade user confidentiality by continuing to collect data for millions of users who had extinguished a follow -up functionality in their Google account.
The verdict followed a trial before the Federal Court of San Francisco for allegations according to which, for more than eight years, Google has accessed mobile devices of users to collect, save and use their data, breaking confidentiality insurance as part of its parameter of web activity and applications.
Users had asked for more than $ 31 billion in damages.
The jury deemed Google responsible for two of the three allegations of privacy violations raised by the complainants. However, he decided that Google had not acted with maliciousness, which means that the company was not responsible for punitive damages.
A Google spokesperson confirmed the verdict. Google had denied any reprehensible act.
The collective appeal, filed in July 2020, allegedly alleged that Google had continued to collect user data even when the parameter was disabled, via its connections with applications such as Uber, Venmo and Instagram from Meta, which are based on Google’s analysis services.
At the trial, Google argued that the data collected was “non -personal, pseudonyms and stored in separate, secure and encrypted locations”. The company said that data was not linked to user Google accounts or any individual identity.
US District Judge Richard Seeborg certified the case as a collective recourse, covering around 98 million Google users and 174 million aircraft.
Google faced other confidentiality proceedings, including an earlier this year when it paid nearly $ 1.4 billion in a regulation with Texas for allegations that the company violated state privacy laws.
In April 2024, Google also agreed to destroy billions of data from the private navigation activities for users to set another trial, which allegedly alleged that people who thought they were sailing in private, including in “incognito” mode.
