New Delhi, July 2 -- Google has been ordered to pay over $314.6 million to Android smartphone users in California after a state court in San Jose ruled in favour of the plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit. The jury agreed with claims that Google was liable for sending and receiving information from Android devices without users' permission while the devices were idle. According to the lawsuit, this amounted to "mandatory and unavoidable burdens shouldered by Android device users for Google's benefit."

The suit further claimed that Google programmed Android phones to transfer data to its servers when users were not connected to a Wi-Fi network, effectively using data that customers were paying for.

The tech giant allegedly used this inf...