WASHINGTON A U.S. federal jury has ordered Google to pay about $425 million for gathering information from smartphone app use even when people opted for privacy settings. "This case is about Google's illegal interception of consumers' private activity on consumer mobile apps," attorneys for the plaintiffs charged in a class action suit filed in July 2020. The jury verdict came at the end of a trial in San Francisco, and a day after a federal judge in Washington, DC, handed the internet giant a