A federal jury in September ordered Google to pay $425.7 million in compensatory damages for harvesting data from third-party phone apps after users disabled a main Google privacy setting. The jury concluded that Google invaded users’ privacy over an eight-year period. Plaintiffs’ victory, which Google will appeal, is a landmark decision that strengthens privacy rights around use of de-identified data. This article examines key impacts of the verdict on the privacy litigation landscape and offers lessons for companies around consent and anonymization practices, with insights from privacy litigators at Blank Rome, Carlton Fields, Cozen O’Connor and Thompson Coburn. See our two-part series “CIPA Jury Verdict Against Meta”: Privacy Litigation Strategies and Lessons (Sep. 3, 2025), and Compliance Takeaways and the Wiretap Litigation Landscape (Sep. 24, 2025).