Google (GOOGL.US) was ordered to pay $4.25 billion in compensation for illegally collecting user data.

The Zhizhong Finance and Economics App learned that, according to reports, a federal jury ruled on Wednesday that Alphabet (GOOGL.US) must pay 4.25 billion US dollars for continuing to collect data from millions of users who had already disabled the tracking feature on their Google accounts, thereby infringing on their privacy rights.