From October 2006 to September 2013, anybody who visited the Google search result hyperlink was entitled to a share, no matter how tiny, of the $23 million payment that the internet company was willing to spend to end a class-action lawsuit.
The organizers of the agreement created a web page where anyone might submit claims. The site estimates that each person will receive a compensation of $7.70. However, depending on the number of persons who submit reasonable claims, this number may change.
In August, Google, an entity of Alphabet Inc., approved the arrangement. The business was charged with “storing and knowingly, carefully, and repeatedly disclosing” customers’ previous searches and inquiries to third-party websites and businesses in the combined class-action lawsuit filed in 2013.
This represented an offense of privacy regulations and an infringement of Google’s security commitment to its customers, based on the lawsuit.