Google is about to pay $1.375 billion to settle claims of knowledge privateness violations introduced by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, in keeping with a press launch.
Texas filed two lawsuits in 2022 towards Google for “unlawfully monitoring and accumulating customers’ non-public knowledge relating to geolocation, incognito searches, and biometric knowledge,” the discharge says. Before now, no single state has “attained a settlement towards Google for comparable data-privacy violations better than $93 million.”
“This settles a raft of previous claims, a lot of which have already been resolved elsewhere, regarding product insurance policies we’ve got lengthy since modified,” Google spokesperson José Castañeda tells The Verge. “We are happy to place them behind us, and we are going to proceed to construct sturdy privateness controls into our providers.”
In 2022, Google agreed to pay $391.5 million to 40 states over allegations of location monitoring with out consumer consent. Last yr, Meta agreed to a $1.4 billion settlement with Texas over facial recognition and photograph tags.
