The entire online privacy regime hinges on a legal fiction: that when we click “I agree,” we’ve meaningfully understood and ...

A jury in San Jose, California, said on Tuesday that Google misused customers' cell phone data and must pay more than $314.6 million to Android smartphone users in the state, according to an ...

The payment dwarfs the fines Google paid to settle similar lawsuits brought by other state governments. In 2022, it paid $392 million to a group of 40 states to settle other data privacy claims.