The US tech giant has said the ju judge’s decision misunderstood its product and will appeal it.
Released on September 4th, 2025
Google has been instructed by the US ju apprentice to pay $425 million to violate the privacy of tens of millions of users who have opted out of using the feature tracking app.
A San Francisco ju-deferral handed over the verdict Wednesday after a group of Google users accused a group of Google users of continuing to collect data from third-party apps even if they change their account settings to prevent practice.
Google said the decision misunderstood how its product would work and that it was planned to appeal.
“Our privacy tools allow people to control their data. When they turn off personalization, we respect that choice,” Google spokesman Jose Castaneda said in a statement.
In their lawsuit, the plaintiffs alleged that Google had collected and sold users’ mobile app activity data in violation of the privacy guarantees contained in their Web & App Activity settings.
The lawsuit, filed in July 2020, covered roughly 98 million Google users.
During the trial, Google claimed that the data collected was “impersonal” and “pseudonyms” and would be stored in “separated, protected, encrypted locations.”
Google faces many other recent privacy lawsuits.
In May, the tech giant agreed to pay Texas $1.375 billion for claims that collected the geometry and audio prints of residents without proper consent, tracking users’ locations even when they opted out of feature.
