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September 4, Fineko/abc.az. A jury in San Francisco has ruled that U.S. tech giant Google must pay $425.7 million in a class action lawsuit over violations of users’ privacy rights.

ABC.AZ reports via Bloomberg that the lawsuit was filed in 2020. The plaintiffs argued that since 2016, Google had been collecting user data from third-party applications even when the “App and Web Search History” setting was disabled on devices.

The jury found the company guilty of violating user privacy but dismissed allegations of breaching the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Damages were assessed at $425.7 million—far below the $31 billion initially sought by the plaintiffs, but still one of the largest settlements in cases involving violations of users’ privacy rights.