Judge Denies Google Users’ Bid For $2.36B, Won’t Decertify Data-Gathering Classes

( February 4, 2026, 9:19 AM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Following a California federal jury’s award of $425 million to two classes of mobile device users against Google LLC for tracking their online activity after telling them that it would not, a judge denied a posttrial motion by the plaintiffs for a permanent injunction and disgorgement of $2.36 billion of Google’s profits allegedly from “misconduct” and denied a motion by Google to decertify the plaintiffs’ classes....