A U.S. federal jury determined on Wednesday that Alphabet's Google must pay $425 million US for invading users' privacy by continuing to collect data for millions of users who had switched off a tracking feature in their Google account.

The verdict comes after a trial in the Federal Court in San Francisco over allegations that Google over an eight-year period accessed users' mobile devices to collect, save and use their data, violating privacy assurances under its Web and App Activity setting.

The users had been seeking more than $31 billion US in damages.

The jury found Google liable on two of the three claims of privacy violations brought by the plaintiffs. The jury found that Google had not acted with malice, meaning it was not entitled to any punitive damages.

A spokesperson for Go

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