Google has not announced a payment date. The claim deadline was August 27, 2026. Class counsel estimates that purchasers of Google-made devices will receive about $18 to $56 each, and privacy class members about $2 to $10 each. Those figures are projections, not final payments. Money cannot go out until the order is entered and any appeal period runs. The filings do not yet show whether any objector will appeal.
For attorneys, the approval closes a case that ran about seven years, but the fee and payout terms are the parts to watch. The judge scrutinized both, and the fee award's departure from the 25% benchmark may be cited in future class settlement fights. The $68 million settlement is a fraction of the $448.8 million in theoretical damages, and the privacy class payouts are small by design. For context, a September 2025 jury in the separate Rodriguez v. Google case ordered Google to pay $425.7 million. Practitioners handling voice-assistant or recording-privacy claims should track the appeal window, any payment announcement, and how other courts treat fee requests in similar funds.