Google was fined $971k for violating the terms of the privacy lawsuit.
In a California federal court privacy case, a US judge on Friday imposed a fine of almost $971,000 in legal expenses and charges on Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.
After US Magistrate Judge Susan van Keulen in a federal court in San Jose, California, concluded in May that Google had failed to timely disclose some pieces of information, the plaintiffs' attorneys at Boies Schiller Flexner and other companies requested more than $1m in fees and costs.
In a $5 billion lawsuit
filed in 2020, it is claimed that Google illegally tracked the data of its
customers even when they were using the "incognito" or private mode
of the company's browsers. Google has refuted responsibility.
The penalties were
imposed because Google "failed to promptly locate relevant witnesses, new
documents, and data sources."in relation to this litigation," van
Keulen stated in an earlier ruling.