{"id":5834,"date":"2025-09-04T20:05:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T15:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/?p=5834"},"modified":"2025-09-04T20:05:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T15:05:31","slug":"google-fined-millions-in-us-and-argentina-over-privacy-breaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/2025\/09\/04\/google-fined-millions-in-us-and-argentina-over-privacy-breaches","title":{"rendered":"Google fined millions in US and argentina over privacy breaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"198\" data-end=\"370\"><strong data-start=\"198\" data-end=\"213\">Washington:<\/strong> Google has faced significant legal setbacks in two different countries due to privacy violations involving unauthorized data collection and image capture.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"372\" data-end=\"726\">In the United States, a federal court in San Francisco ordered Google to pay $425 million after ruling that the company unlawfully gathered users\u2019 personal data over eight years, ignoring privacy settings related to web and app activities. While plaintiffs initially demanded damages exceeding $31 billion, the jury imposed a substantially lower penalty.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"728\" data-end=\"1011\">At the same time, an Argentine court fined Google approximately $12,500 for capturing an invasive image of a police officer in his private home through its Street View service back in 2015. The photo, which showed the officer in an exposed state, led to a successful privacy lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1013\" data-end=\"1242\">Experts believe these rulings reflect increasing international pressure on technology firms to uphold user privacy and comply with evolving regulations, highlighting the growing importance of digital rights protections worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington: Google has faced significant legal setbacks in two different countries due to privacy violations involving unauthorized data collection and image capture. In the United States, a federal court in San Francisco ordered Google to pay $425 million after ruling that the company unlawfully gathered users\u2019 personal data over eight years, ignoring privacy settings related &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[3023,3024,3022,3021,3019,3020,1201,2409,2294],"class_list":["post-5834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-3023","tag-3024","tag-approximately","tag-argentina","tag-google","tag-millions","tag-privacy","tag-washington","tag-youdigital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5836,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5834\/revisions\/5836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}