US District Judge Richard Seeborg in San Francisco granted the fee request by law firms Boies Schiller Flexner, Susman Godfrey and Morgan & Morgan over objections from some class members. A jury in September found Google liable for secretly collecting app activity data from millions of users who had disabled a tracking feature.

Google's parent company has agreed to pay £260m to settle a class action lawsuit alleging the US company was imposing "unfair and excessive" charges on app developers selling apps…

A federal judge awarded lawyers nearly $147 million in fees following a $425M jury verdict against Google for secretly tracking 98 million