A California court delivered a strong fine to Google over its "misuse" of Android users' data over cell connections.

Google has been ordered to pay $314.6 million to Android phone users in California for collecting data from idle phones.

The company will appeal the payout, which will otherwise go to Android users in California whose cellular data was used to transmit information back to Google for uses like targeted advertising. There’s a similar case going to trial in April 2026 on behalf of users in the other 49 states,