Google to pay Texas $1.4 billion in data privacy settlement

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to pay Texas $1.4 billion in data privacy settlement

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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

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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

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for similar data privacy violations.

“In Texas, Big Tech is not above the law,” Paxton said in a statement.

“For years,

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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.”

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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.

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