American jury fines Google $425.7 mn for snooping

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San Francisco, Updated At : 04:33 AM Sep 05, 2025 IST

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A US federal jury has ordered Google to pay $425.7 million for improperly snooping on people’s smartphones during a nearly decade-long period of intrusions. The verdict reached Wednesday in a San Francisco federal court followed a more than two-week trial in a class-action case covering about 98 million smartphones operating in the United States between July 1, 2016, through Sept 23, 2024. That means the total damages awarded in the five-year-old case works out to about $4 per device.

Google had denied improperly tracking the online activity of people.

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