FOX Business Correspondent Grady Trimble reports on Google’s AI contract.
Federal Juju Court I ordered Google Paying $425.7 million to infiltrate user privacy by collecting data over eight years to millions of people who have turned off tracking on their Google accounts.
Wednesday’s verdict in San Francisco comes after a trial in a class action case that filed for around 98 million users in the United States between July 1, 2016 and 2024. The ju apprentice discovered that the company was spying on users in violation of California privacy laws.
Google has denied improper access to devices to collect, store, and use data from people they believe they have protected online activity with privacy controls.
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The federal ju apprenticed ordered Google to pay $425.7 million to infiltrate user privacy. (Reuters/Reuters Photos)
“This decision misunderstands how our products work,” Google spokesman Jose Castaneda said in a statement to Reuters. “Our privacy tools allow people to control their data and when they turn off personalization, they respect that choice.”
Castaneda said the company plans to appeal the verdict.
The class action lawsuit was filed in July 2020, accusing Google of continuing to collect data about users who have been turned on. Privacy Control.
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Google said it plans to appeal the verdict. (Getty Images/Malena Sloth via Getty Images/Bloomberg)
During the trial, Google said the collected data was “stored in impersonal, pseudonyms and isolated, protected and encrypted locations.”
The company claimed that the data was not associated with the user’s Google account or the user’s identity.
David Boys, the lawyer representing the user, said in a statement that he was “clearly very pleased with the verdict returned by the ju judge.”
The class action lawsuit was filed in July 2020, accusing Google of continuing to collect data about users who have turned on privacy controls. (via Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency Getty Images/Getty Images)
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Google is being slapped Other lawsuits The privacy violations include a violation earlier this year, when they agreed to pay around $1.4 billion in a settlement with Texas for allegations that they violate state privacy laws.
Last year, the company agreed to resolve a lawsuit accusing users of destroying billions of data records of personal browsing activities and tracking people they believe they are viewing personally, including “Incognito” mode.
Reuters contributed to this report.
