Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google persuaded a federal judge in San Francisco on Friday to reject a bid by consumers for more than $2 billion in penalties over the company\u2019s past collection of data from users who had switched off a key privacy setting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chief U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg denied the request to order Google to disgorge $2.36 billion in alleged profits and to stop certain ad-related data practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Google had urged Seeborg not to add the penalty to a jury\u2019s verdict in September that found the company liable for secretly collecting app activity data from millions of users who had disabled a tracking feature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The jury in September awarded about $425 million in damages to the class action plaintiffs – far below the $31 billion they sought – and issued an advisory verdict that disgorgement was unwarranted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment. David Boies, a lead attorney for the consumers, said they were thankful Seeborg’s ruling confirmed the jury’s verdict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Google has denied any wrongdoing and said it will appeal the September verdict. Seeborg on Friday rejected Google\u2019s request to decertify the class of 98 million users and 174 million devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In their request for disgorgement, the plaintiffs said they were entitled to Google\u2019s allegedly ill-gotten gains from its data tracking. Despite the verdict, Google has not changed its privacy disclosures or data collection practices, the plaintiffs said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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