{"id":178757,"date":"2023-12-20T16:26:18","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T22:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/google-will-pay-700-million-to-us-states-users-in-play-store-settlement"},"modified":"2023-12-20T16:26:18","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T22:26:18","slug":"google-will-pay-700-million-to-us-states-users-in-play-store-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/google-will-pay-700-million-to-us-states-users-in-play-store-settlement","title":{"rendered":"Google will pay $700 million to US states, users in Play Store settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-will-pay-700-million-to-us-states-users-in-play-store-settlement2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The deal comes a week after a jury found Google guilty of violating antitrust laws in a similar case brought by Epic Games, the maker of the popular Fortnite game.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>As part of the settlement, Google will pay $630 million to refund US consumers overcharged for in-app purchases made through the Play Store between August 2016 and September 2023. The estimated 102 million eligible consumers will receive at least $2 each and may get more depending on their spending. They will be automatically notified about how to claim their money.<\/p>\n<p>Google will also pay $70 million in penalties and other costs to the states involved in the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the monetary compensation, Google has also agreed to make some concessions to app developers and consumers to foster more competition and choice in the Android app market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The deal comes a week after a jury found Google guilty of violating antitrust laws in a similar case brought by Epic Games, the maker of the popular Fortnite game. As part of the settlement, Google will pay $630 million to refund US consumers overcharged for in-app purchases made through the Play Store between August [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}