It’s taken a while but former Google+ users are now able to claim their payouts from the class-action lawsuit brought against Google for the privacy breach that brought forward the demise of the social network. But before you head off to book that fancy restaurant for a family meal you should know how much this payout is going to put in your pocket.
In a nutshell, it’s less than $3. Yup, you’ll get just $2.15 in your bank account when you claim your payout thanks to the lawyers taking almost half the settlement figure of $7.5 million that Google agreed to pay the 1.7 million former Google+ users who signed up to the class-action lawsuit.
And that’s it. Google+ has been dead and buried since 2019 and now we have the conclusion (via ArsTechnica) of the lawsuit brought about because of the huge data breach that affected the private data of more than 50 million users. $2.15 isn’t much to speak of and it could have been as much as $12 if more people had signed up to the lawsuit, but they didn’t and so it is what it is.
How are you going to spend the $2.15?
