Google agrees to pay Texas $1.4 billion data privacy settlement
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“Google secretly tracked people’s movements, private searches, and even their voiceprints and facial geometry,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said.
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“Google secretly tracked people’s movements, private searches, and even their voiceprints and facial geometry,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said.
Texas secured an historic settlement with Google over privacy violations involving location tracking, incognito browsing, and biometric data collection.
Google will pay $1.4 billion to Texas to settle claims the company collected data on users without permission, the state’s attorney general announced Friday.
Google 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...
Paxton described the settlement as sending a message to tech companies that he will not allow them to make money off of “selling away our rights and freedoms.”
Google has agreed to pay the state of Texas $1.375 billion to settle two lawsuits accusing the company of violating its residents' data privacy rights.
