Google sued in UK for overcharging millions of users

Google faces a lawsuit over claims that it overcharged nearly 20 million app store customers in the UK, by applying a 30% surcharge for digital purchases.— Reuters

Alphabet Inc.’s Google faces a London suit over claims it overcharged nearly 20 million UK customers for app store purchases, just a month after it was sued in a similar US 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 UK competition laws at the "expense of millions of loyal customers in the UK.”