Google Users Unlikely to Win $2.3 Billion in Privacy Switch Case

A group of Google LLC users appeared unlikely to convince a San Francisco federal court to order the tech giant to pay $2.36 billion in ill-gotten profits from data it continued to collect on users who flipped a privacy switch in their account settings.

Judge Richard Seeborg at a hearing Wednesday said he was skeptical of the users’ request because a jury last year issued an advisory verdict finding they aren’t entitled Google’s profits, known as disgorgement.

The hearing is the latest post-trial fight in a years-long privacy class action where nearly 100 million Google users claimed the company continued ...