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Google faces risky next chapter in watershed US privacy case

By Mike Swift ( October 7, 2025, 22:47 GMT | Comment) -- Google took claims that it broke the law by continuing to collect personal data from nearly 100 million Americans who had toggled off a key privacy settling to a federal jury this summer and lost a $426 million verdict. Now, in a new phase of the case, the plaintiffs are poised to seek up to $4.6 billion in unjust enrichment damages, while Google will likely try to de-fang the plaintiffs' claims by seeking to decertify the class in the case.A month after Google lost a $426 million US jury verdict over its disclosures about its logging of users’ app activity, the case is poised to move into a new phase that exposes the tech giant to up to $4.6 billion in additional damages and the risk of forced business changes....

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