Google agrees to pay state of Texas $US1.3b for privacy breaches and is sued by Mexico after Trump call

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agrees to pay state of Texas $US1.3b for privacy breaches and is sued by Mexico after Trump call

Tech giant

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is fighting battles on several fronts and has been forced to settle a monstrous data breach privacy lawsuit with the state of Texas, to the tune of nearly $US1.4 billion.

The ‘lone star state’s’ law officials took action against

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on behalf of their residents for privacy breaches within their search engine and apps and have ultimately won a defining victory over the silicon valley colossus.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has stated on Friday that the state of Texas sued

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in 2022 for allegedly unlawfully tracking and collecting the private data of users.

The attorney general explained the settlement, which covers allegations in two separate lawsuits against the search engine and app giant, dwarfed all past settlements by other states with

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for similar data privacy violations.

Paxton is a renowned advocate for online privacy and less than a year ago fought and won a $US1.4 billion settlement for Texas from Meta, the parent company of

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and

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, to resolve claims of unauthorised use of biometric data by users of those popular social media platforms.

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

“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 $US1.375 billion settlement is a major win for Texans’ privacy and tells companies that they will pay for abusing our trust.”

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spokesman Jose Castaneda said the company did not admit any wrongdoing or liability in the settlement, which involves allegations related to the Chrome browser’s incognito setting, disclosures related to location history on the

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Maps app, and biometric claims related to

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Photo.

“This settles a raft of old claims, many of which have already been resolved elsewhere, concerning product policies we have long since changed,” Castaneda said.

“We are pleased to put them behind us, and we will continue to build robust privacy controls into our services.”

Meanwhile, Mexico has launched legal proceedings and is suing

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over its labelling of the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, a change made by US President Donald Trump via executive order.

******** President Claudia Sheinbaum has not provided details of the lawsuit, but said that

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had been sued.

Mexico’s Foreign Relations ministry had previously sent letters to

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asking it not to label ******** territorial waters as the Gulf of America, the body of water has shared borders between the United States and Mexico.

Trump’s order only carries authority within the US and Mexico, as well as other countries and international bodies, do not have to recognise the name change.

Mexico argues that Gulf of America should only apply to the part of the gulf over the United States continental shelf.

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