Image: Daniel Romero/Unsplash Google’s $135 million Android settlement could pay eligible US users who used Android devices with cellular data since November 2017. We may earn from vendors via affiliate links or sponsorships. This might affect product placement on our site, but not the content of our reviews. See our Terms of Use for details. One of Google’s biggest Android privacy lawsuits is now moving toward a payout that could reach roughly 100 million people. Google has agreed to pay $135 million to settle a class-action lawsuit accusing the company of collecting and transmitting Android users’ data without proper consent. The lawsuit alleged that  Google designed Android  to cause devices to “transfer a variety of information” to its systems, even when users weren’t actively using apps or had disabled certain settings. Some claims went further, saying the system kept sending data in the background over cellular networks, consuming users’ mobile data without permission.…