Google will pay a $1.375 billion settlement to Texas over privacy violations

Google is acceptable to wage $1.375 cardinal to settee claims of information privateness violations brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, according to a property release.

Texas filed two lawsuits successful 2022 against Google for “unlawfully tracking and collecting users’ backstage information regarding geolocation, incognito searches, and biometric data,” the merchandise says. Before now, nary azygous authorities has “attained a colony against Google for akin data-privacy violations greater than $93 million.”

“This settles a raft of aged claims, galore of which person already been resolved elsewhere, concerning merchandise policies we person agelong since changed,” Google spokesperson José Castañeda tells The Verge. “We are pleased to enactment them down us, and we volition proceed to physique robust privateness controls into our services.”

In 2022, Google agreed to pay $391.5 cardinal to 40 states implicit allegations of determination tracking without idiosyncratic consent. Last year, Meta agreed to a $1.4 cardinal colony with Texas implicit facial designation and photograph tags.