A California jury has ordered Google to pay over $314 million in damages to Android users in the state, concluding that the company misused their cellular data without consent. The verdict affects around 14 million Android smartphone users across California.
The class-action lawsuit accused Google of improperly collecting and transmitting data from Android devices even when users weren’t actively using their phones or connected to Wi-Fi. This data transmission, done in the background while phones were idle, resulted in the consumption of users’ cellular data plans without their explicit knowledge or permission.
