Google Sued in U.K. for Overcharging Millions of Users
- Google’s app store charges called ‘excessive and unfair’
- London suit comes a month after similar case was filed in U.S.
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Alphabet Inc.’s Google faces a London suit over claims it overcharged nearly 20 million U.K. customers for app store purchases, just a month after it was sued in a similar U.S. case.
Google Play Store’s 30% surcharge for digital purchases is “excessive and unfair,” the claimants said in a press release Thursday. The suit, filed at London’s Competition Appeal Tribunal on Wednesday, says Google breaches European and U.K. competition laws at the “expense of millions of loyal customers in the U.K.”