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, SİA informs via Bloomberg.
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.
The jury found that Google is liable for invasion of privacy and intrusion upon seclusion violations under the California Constitution but not California"s Computer Data Access and Fraud Act.
The damages awarded by the jury is vastly inferior to the $31 billion the plaintiffs requested at the end of the trial, but still among the larger privacy payouts from a Big Tech company.
Plaintiffs" attorney David Boies of Boies Schiller Flexner LLP in a statement said: "We are obviously very pleased with today"s verdict."
"This decision misunderstands how our products work, and we will appeal it," Google Spokesperson José Castañeda said in a statement. "Our privacy tools give people control over their data, and when they turn off personalization, we honor that choice."
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