Google told to pay $425m for breaching millions of users’ privacy

US tech elephantine says assemblage determination misunderstands its products and it volition appeal.

Google has been told by a US assemblage to wage $425m for violating the privateness of tens of millions of users who opted retired of a diagnostic tracking app use.

The assemblage successful San Francisco handed down the verdict connected Wednesday aft a radical of Google users accused the tech elephantine of continuing to collect information from third-party apps adjacent erstwhile they changed their relationship settings to forestall the practice.

Google said the determination misunderstood however its products enactment and that it planned to appeal.

“Our privateness tools springiness radical power implicit their data, and erstwhile they crook disconnected personalization, we grant that choice,” Google spokesperson Jose Castaneda said successful a statement.

In their lawsuit, the plaintiffs alleged that Google collected and sold users’ mobile app enactment information successful breach of privateness assurances contained successful its Web & App Activity settings.

The suit, which was filed successful July 2020, covered immoderate 98 cardinal Google users.

During the trial, Google had argued that collected information was “nonpersonal” and “pseudonymous” and stored successful “segregated, secured, and encrypted locations”.

Google has faced a fig of different caller privacy-related lawsuits.

In May, the tech elephantine agreed to wage $1.375bn to the authorities of Texas implicit claims it had collected residents’ look geometry and voiceprints without due consent, and tracked users’ locations adjacent erstwhile they opted retired of the feature.