Anyone who clicked on a Google search result link from October 2006 to September 2013 is entitled to a piece — however small — of a $23 million settlement that the tech giant has agreed to pay to resolve a class-action lawsuit.
The settlement’s administrators set up a website for people to submit claims.
Google, which is owned by Alphabet Inc., agreed to the settlement in August.
The consolidated class-action lawsuit filed in 2013 accused the company of “storing and intentionally, systematically and repeatedly divulging” users’ search queries and histories to third-party websites and companies.
This, according to the lawsuit, amounted to a privacy-law violation and a breach of Google’s own privacy pledge to its users.
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divulging
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Google, Alphabet Inc