A federal judge in San Francisco rejected consumers’ bid for over $2 billion in penalties against Google for collecting data from users who disabled a key privacy setting. Google was found liable for secretly collecting app activity data, but the jury awarded only $425 million in damages, far less than the $31 billion sought.

Google plans to appeal the verdict and deny any wrongdoing. The judge denied a request to stop certain ad-related data practices and decertify the class of 98 million users and 174 million devices. Plaintiffs claimed entitlement to Google’s alleged profits, but the judge ruled they failed to show irreparable harm or sufficient evidence of profits.

Despite the verdict, Google has not changed its privacy disclosures or data collection practices. The plaintiffs argued that blocking Google from collecting user data would harm an analytics service used by millions of app developers. The judge ruled that there was no justification for a permanent injunction against Google’s data collection practices. The case is Rodriguez v. Google LLC in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

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