Jury Tells Google To Pay $425 Mn Over App Privacy

Attorneys in a class action suit argued that Google collected data about mobile phone app activity even from users who applied security settings it recommended to avoid such tracking (Credit: AFP)

A US federal jury on Wednesday ordered Google to pay about $425 million for gathering information from smartphone app use even when people opted for privacy settings, the company confirmed.

"This case is about Google's illegal interception of consumers' private activity on consumer mobile applications (apps)," attorneys for the plaintiffs charged in a class action suit filed in July 2020.