Google users demand jury to award $290 billion compensation in privacy case.

Google users are demanding a federal jury to award them $290 billion in damages to address accusations that the search giant continued to collect personal data without their consent after turning off the privacy switch. This compensation request was made during opening statements at a class action trial that began on Tuesday in San Francisco, and the amount would far exceed the damages awarded in other major privacy cases against Google, including a $1.4 billion settlement earlier this year with the Texas Attorney General over state privacy violations. The massive compensation is calculated based on the number of users in the class action and the duration of the alleged misconduct. The class action includes nearly 100 million Google users. David Boies, the class action lawyer from Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, told the eight-person jury during his opening statement on Tuesday that the group alleges Google illegally collected their data over an eight-year period after they disabled tracking features in their account settings.