THAT IS a LOT of people….
The states wrote in a court filing late Monday that they estimate at least 70 percent of eligible consumers, or 71.4 million people, will receive automatic payments without having to file a claim….
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The Google settlement is a big-ticket payout, though it comes in under the $725 million that Facebook agreed to pay earlier this year for sharing users’ data without their permission.
According to the settlement terms, an “eligible consumer” for the payout is an individual whose legal address in their Google payments profile was in one of the U.S. states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico or the U.S. Virgin Islands when they purchased an app from Google Play or made an in-app purchase, including subscriptions, through Google Play Billing from Aug. 16, 2016, through Sept. 30, 2023…