Judge Rejects Multibillion-Dollar Penalty Request In Google Privacy Case

By CPI
Publication Date: 2026-02-01 18:23:00

A federal judge in San Francisco on Friday turned away an effort by consumers to impose more than $2 billion in additional penalties on Alphabet’s Google over how it handled user data after people disabled a key privacy control.

Chief U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg ruled that the plaintiffs were not entitled to the $2.36 billion they sought in alleged profits and also declined to order changes to Google’s advertising-related data practices, according to a statement describing the decision. The request came after a jury last September found the company liable for collecting app activity information from users who had switched off a tracking feature.

The jury had already awarded roughly $425 million in damages to the class action, far less than the $31 billion the consumers had requested, and it issued an advisory finding that taking away Google’s profits was not justified, per a statement summarizing the trial outcome. Seeborg said on Friday that the plaintiffs had not…

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