The plaintiffs filed the class action lawsuit in state court in 2019 on behalf of an estimated 14 million Californians.

In 2019, nearly 14 million citizens of California filed a class action lawsuit in the state against Google. The reason for the class action suit was that "Google collected information from idle phones running its Android operating system for company uses like targeted advertising,

Google was told by a California jury to pay $314 million over claims that it illegally used Android users’ cellular data to collect information without their knowledge.