Google will pay Texas $1.4B to settle claims the company collected users’ data without permission
- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a $1.4 billion preliminary settlement with Google over data privacy violations on May 9, 2025.
- The settlement addresses a 2022 lawsuit accusing Google of illegally monitoring users’ sensitive information such as location details, searches made in private browsing mode, and biometric markers.
- Google collected biometric data like voiceprints and facial geometry through products such as Google Photos, Assistant, and Nest Hub Max over several years.
- Paxton called the deal a "historic win for Texans' data privacy" and said, "In Texas, Big Tech is not above the law."
- This marks Texas’s second major $1.4 billion privacy settlement against big tech in consecutive years, following a similar case against Meta in 2024.
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