Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Google will pay the state a $1.375B settlement “for unlawfully tracking and collecting users’ private data regarding geolocation, incognito searches, and biometric data.” The state said, “General Paxton agreed to settle Texas’s data-privacy claims against Google for an amount that far surpasses any other state’s claims for similar violations. To date, no state has attained a settlement against Google for similar data-privacy violations greater than $93 million. Even a multistate coalition that included forty states secured just $391 million-almost a billion dollars less than Texas’s recovery.”
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