Google Hit With $425 Million Jury Verdict in Privacy Trial (5)

By Isaiah Poritz, Legal Reporter

Google LLC must pay $425.7 million in compensatory damages for violating the privacy rights of almost 100 million Google users who asked that their account data not be tracked, a jury decided Wednesday.

The eight-person jury in San Francisco federal court found that Google deceived its users about a privacy switch in their account settings that would purportedly stop the company from collecting their data across third-party apps. Even if a user flipped the privacy switch, Google continued to save and copy their data in violation of California privacy law, the jury determined.

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Source: Bloomberg Law