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Google will pay $ 1.4 billion in Texas to settle legal action claiming the company Collected user data Without authorization, according to the Attorney General of the Ken Paxton State.
Paxton said the regulation sent a message to technological companies that they will not allow them to take advantage of “selling our rights and freedoms”. He also declared that the agreement “is a major victory for Texans’ privacy and indicates to the companies they will pay to abuse our confidence”.
“In Texas, Big Tech is not above the law,” Paxton said in a statement. “For years, Google has secretly followed people’s movements, private research and even their vocal footprints and their facial geometry through their products and services. I retaliated and won.”
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Google will pay $ 1.4 billion in Texas to settle legal action stating that the company has collected user data without authorization. (Marlena Sloss / Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)
This is the largest amount earned by any state in a regulation with Google on similar violations of data opportunitySaid Paxton.
The Agreement pays several Texas claims against Google in a 2022 trial on geolocation, incognito research and biometric data. The state argued that Google followed illegally and collected private data from users illegal.
Paxton said that the technology giant had collected millions of biometric identifiers, including vocal sockets and facial geometry recordings, via applications like Google Photos and Google Assistant.
The Agreement pays several Texas claims against Google in a 2022 trial on geolocation, incognito research and biometric data. (Tayfun Coskun / Anadolu agency via Getty Images / Getty Images)
Google said that the agreement is regulating various “old complaints”, including some of product policies that the company has already changed. The Company said that the regulation does not require any additional change of product.
“We are happy to put them behind us, and we will continue to establish robust confidentiality checks in our services,” said Google spokesperson José Castañeda, in a statement in Texas Tribune.
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The Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said that the regulations “is a major victory for Texans’ privacy and tells the businesses they will pay to abuse our confidence”. (Stefani Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images / Getty Images)
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Texas had already reached two others Settlements with Google In the past two years, including in December 2023, when the company has agreed to pay $ 700 million and make several other concessions to settle allegations that it had stifled the competition against its Android App Store.
Last year, Meta agreed with a settlement of $ 1.4 billion with Texas to say that the company used facial recognition software without user consent. The “Tag Suggestions” feature was specifically cited in the costume, because Facebook would perform photos downloaded from the website via its facial recognition software and suggests people to mark photos.
