A federal jury determined on Wednesday that Alphabet’
Google must pay $425 million for invading users’ privacy by continuing to collect data for millions of users who had switched off a tracking feature in their Google account.
The verdict comes after a trial in the federal court in San Francisco over allegations that Google over an eight-year period accessed users’ mobile devices to collect, save, and use their data, violating privacy assurances under its Web & App Activity setting.
The users had been seeking more than $31 billion in damages.
They’ll keep doing it.
definitely, they’ll pay the fine and carry on just like always. laws are only for those who can’t afford paying off the system
Yep, best thing you can do is cut out Google from your life. Even just using a single service less is less they will have on you.
Isn’t that like .01% of Alphabet’s value? Pfft… Go easy on 'em…
That’s … Likely less than a dollar for each American after lawyers fees.
Ayyy, they missed one or two zeros…
If nobody goes to jail, then it’s just the cost of doing business
Google, todays IBM of the 1930/40s.
