By Mike Scarcella
Publication Date: 2025-11-20 21:00:00
WASHINGTON, Nov 20 (Reuters) – Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google has urged a federal judge to reject demands that it surrender more than $2.3 billion in profits and stop certain ad-related data practices, calling the requests in a long-running privacy case “wildly disproportionate” and unnecessary.
In a court filing on Wednesday, Google told Chief U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg in San Francisco that the consumer plaintiffs are not entitled to disgorgement of profit and asked the court to honor a September jury verdict.
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The company warned that granting the plaintiffs’ request to block it from collecting users’ account-related data would “cripple” an analytics service relied on by millions of app developers.
Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment, and attorneys for the plaintiffs had no immediate comment.
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