Google Ordered to Pay $425.7M for Snooping on 98 million Smartphones

1 sourceUpdated Sep 4, 2025

A San Francisco federal jury has ordered Google to pay a staggering $425.7 million after finding the tech giant illegally tracked smartphone users who believed they had opted out of such surveillance. The verdict…

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