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At Google US privacy trial, MIT professor rebuts plaintiffs’ damages theory

By Maria Dinzeo ( August 29, 2025, 00:25 GMT | Insight) -- The nearly $1.5 billion that Google was alleged to have made from collecting data on its users’ app activity was grossly overstated, an economist told jurors today as Google continues its defense in a federal privacy trial. A Google software engineer was also pressed over an email exchange that plaintiffs presented as evidence that the company misled users about its data collection practices. An economist for Google rebutted claims that the tech giant made nearly $1.5 billion in profit by collecting user data from third-party apps, telling a jury that the figure was “grossly overstated.”...

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