Google must pay $425 million for breaching users' privacy by collecting data from millions of users who'd switched off a tracking feature in their account, per a Wednesday federal jury verdict.

What we're watching: The tech giant will appeal the ruling, a Google spokesperson said in a media statement.

Driving the news: The San Francisco case was brought by a group of users who alleged in a class-action lawsuit that Google "unlawfully accessed their devices and data, including app activity data on their mobile devices" in "violation" of privacy assurances under the tech giant's Web & App Activity setting. • The users had sought $31 billion in damages in the case that was filed in July 2020 and which covered some 98 million Google users and 174 million devices.

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