Jury orders Google to pay USD 425M for tracking smartphones despite opt-out

San Francisco: A federal jury has ordered Google to pay $425.7 million for improperly snooping on peoples smartphones during a nearly decade-long period of intrusions. The verdict reached Wednesday in San Francisco federal court followed a more than two-week trial in a class-action case covering about 98 million smartphones operating in the United States between Get the latest updates in Hyderabad City News , Technology , Entertainment , Sports , Politics and Top Stories on WhatsApp & Telegram by subscribing to our channels. You can also download our app for Android and iOS .