09/15/2025
Google misled users about their privacy and now owes them $425m, says court.
A court has ordered Google to pay $425m in a class action lawsuit after it was found to have misled users about their online privacy.
In July 2020, Google user Anibal Rodriguez filed a lawsuit against the search giant, arguing that it misled users with its “Web & App Activity” setting. The setting was supposed to stop Google collecting data about users’ activities online and in apps.
In reality, Google continued to collect data about how people were using their apps, even after they had switched off data collection in the Web & App Activity setting. Although it said that it was anonymizing that data.
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A court has ordered Google to pay $425m in a class action lawsuit after it was found to have misled users about their online privacy.