Google to pay Texas $ 1.4 billion to settle unauthorized tracking claims, and collect private data

Google will pay $ 1.4 billion to Texas to settle a company claiming to User data collection Without permission, according to the state lawyer, Ken Buckston.

Buckston said that the settlement sends a message to technology companies that they will not be allowed to benefit from “selling our rights and freedoms.” He also said that the agreement “is a great victory for Texas privacy and companies tell that they will pay for misuse of our confidence.”

“In Texas, large technology is not above the law,” Buckston said in a statement. “For years, Google secretly tracked people’s movements, special research operations, even their audio and facial engineering through their products and services. I have fought and won.”

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This is the largest amount that any country won in a settlement with a similar Google Data data violationsBuckston said.

The agreement was settled by many claims that Texas filed against Google in a lawsuit in 2022 to determine the geographical location, hidden research and biometric data. The state argued that Google was following and collecting private data illegally.

Paxton claimed that the technology giant collected millions of biometric identifiers, including audio and facial engineering records, through applications such as Google Photos and Google Assistant.

Google said the agreement is to settle “different old claims”, including some of the product policies that have already changed the company. The company said that the settlement does not require any additional changes in the product.

“We are pleased to put them behind us, and we will continue to build strong privacy controls in our services,” Google spokesman Jose Casta said in a statement to the Texas Tribune.

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Texas has already reached two others Settlements with Google In the past two years, including in December 2023 when the company agreed to pay 700 million dollars and provide many other privileges to settle allegations that it was suffocating competition against its Android App Store.

Last year, Meta agreed to a $ 1.4 billion settlement with Texas on claims that the company used the face recognition program without the approval of users. The feature of “Signs Sumctions” is mentioned specifically in the lawsuit, where Facebook will play the images uploaded to the web site through its face recognition program and suggested people on the images.