Diamond Member Pelican Press 0 Posted May 9, 2025 Diamond Member Share Posted May 9, 2025 This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up to pay Texas $1.4 billion in data privacy settlement A This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up corporate logo hangs above the entrance to the company’s office at St. John’s Terminal in New York City on March 11, 2025. Gary Hershorn | Corbis News | Getty Images This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up agreed to pay nearly $1.4 billion to the state of Texas to settle allegations of violating data privacy rights of the state’s residents, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Friday. Paxton sued This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up in 2022 for allegedly unlawfully tracking and collecting the private data of users. The attorney general said the settlement dwarfed all past settlements by other states with This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up for similar data privacy violations. “In Texas, Big Tech is not above the law,” Paxton said in a statement. “For years, This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up secretly tracked people’s movements, private searches, and even their voiceprints and facial geometry through their products and services. I fought back and won,” said Paxton. “This $1.375 billion settlement is a major win for Texans’ privacy and tells companies that they will pay for abusing our trust.” A spokesperson for This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up said, “This settles a raft of old claims, many of which have already been resolved elsewhere, concerning product policies we have long since changed.” “We are pleased to put them behind us, and we will continue to build robust privacy controls into our services,” the spokesperson said. This is breaking news. Please refresh for updates. This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up # This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up #pay #Texas #billion #data #privacy #settlement This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up 0 Quote Link to comment https://hopzone.eu/forums/topic/244866-google-to-pay-texas-14-billion-in-data-privacy-settlement/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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