Google has agreed to a preliminary $135 million settlement in a class action lawsuit brought by Android users who accused it of harvesting their data without consent. The suit alleged that since November 12, 2017, Google has been illegally collecting cellular data from phones purchased through carriers, even when apps were closed or location features were disabled.
As reported by Reuters, the affected users believed Google using their data for marketing and product development meant it was guilty of “conversion.” In US law, conversion occurs when one party takes the property of another with “the intent to deprive them of it” or “exert property rights over it.”
Subject to approval from a judge, a settlement of $135 million was filed in a San Jose federal court earlier this week. The payout would be one of, if not the largest ever in a case of this nature, according to Glen Summers, a lawyer for the plaintiffs.
Cost of doing business for them, I’m sure.
isnt that amount like fining regular person couple of hundred?
Probably worse than that.
This shit doesn’t stop until the people that actually do this are subject to actual criminal penalties.
Cash they’ve got. Jail time for CEOs will work better.
Or subject to an angry mob guillotines all the CEO’s, politicians, walstreet criminals and shareholder scum
Wow! So everyone gets what $1? Lesson learned I’m sure
But they won’t stop. It’s like if some people complained that I’ve been speeding consistently over the past 15 years, so the state fines me ($3.9T ÷ $130M = 30,000; my monetary worth of £2,000 ÷ 30,000) £0.06 while I’m ripping through a residential area towards a school and continue for the next 15
Hope they’re happy with their $10 payout.
I only took part of one class action lawsuit and it was against Facebook. I still look back on that and feel a little regretful. I’m only one dude so I can’t possibly hope to take on Facebook solely in a court environment. I got $14 payout. But in doing so, means I can’t ever legally take action against them anyways.
So, don’t settle for this. Keep Google accountable.
per affected user, right?
Any C-levels, current or former, who were in charge during the unethical behaviour should be made to pay this. Either they knew or they should have known. Seize their assets, take them back to basic income and lifestyle and only then take the remainder of the fine from the company.
Yeah, I know this is a pipe dream. These people have their arms lodged so deep in politicians it makes their mouths flap, so it’ll never happen, but it would stop this sort of behaviour right quick.
Agreed, LLC should only cover bankruptcy expenses and not penal responsibilities.
I have an Android phone, where’s my money?
Nice. All that money will be invested in reducing dependence to GAFAM right?
I’ll expect my free credit score check sometime in the next 2 years.
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Problem is that there’s no real alternative right now. It’s either google or apple… I own a Samsung and I can’t even root it anymore
