Google will pay Texas $1.4 billion to settle privacy lawsuits

Google has agreed to pay $ 1.375 billion dollars to the state of Texas so that without their permission to dispose of two cases of users’ personal positions, camouflage explorations and voice and face data tracking.

Texas Attorney General Ken Packston brought the cases in 2022. Family Meta agrees to pay the same amount of money To settle the face-related case-related case from Pyxton last year.

“In Texas, not on the Big Tech Act,” Paceston said A statementThe “Over the years Google tracks people with their products and services by tracking people in secret, personal search and even their voiceprints and face geometry. I fought back and won.”

Paxton’s office also says “This is the highest restoration nationwide against Google for any attorney general for any attorney general for law enforcement.”

A Google spokesman said the company was settling the case without any admission of wrongdoing or responsibility and without changing any product.

“It disposes an old claim, many of which have already been resolved somewhere else, we have changed a long time about product policies,” spokesman Jose Casteda said in a statement. “We are happy to leave us behind us, and we will continue to create strong privacy control over our services.”

Google won some previous victory in these suits, for example with the judgment of the Appellate Court There is a lack of adequate relationships with the company with Texas Face to face a case. The company initially responded to saying this Paceston’s products have been incorrectly driven “Other breathing suit” – for example, the company says that Google photos simply scanned users’ faces to group similar photos together and it does not use the feature for advertising.

This has been settled after a big disbelief verdict to know that Google has worked illegally to maintain exclusive Web search And Advertising technologyIncluding the proposed remedy with the split of chrome. (Google says it will apply to both judgment.)

Packston, already, recently announced that he would do Challenge US Senator John Cornin In the mid-melody elections next year.