Google must pay $425.7 million in compensatory damages for violating the privacy rights of almost 100 million Google users, Isaiah Poritz reports.
A California jury 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 Wednesday.
The tech giant is liable for invasion of privacy and intrusion upon seclusion violations but not California’s Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, ...