{"id":668377,"date":"2025-05-11T04:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T01:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/google-will-pay-texas-1-4-billion-to-settle-privacy-lawsuits\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T04:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T01:17:07","slug":"google-will-pay-texas-1-4-billion-to-settle-privacy-lawsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/google-will-pay-texas-1-4-billion-to-settle-privacy-lawsuits\/","title":{"rendered":"Google will pay Texas $1.4 billion to settle privacy lawsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Google has agreed to pay the state of Texas $1.375 billion to settle two lawsuits accusing the company of tracking users\u2019 personal location, incognito searches, and voice and facial data without their permission.<\/p>\n

The lawsuits were brought by Texas Attorney General<\/a> Ken Paxton in 2022. Facebook<\/a>\u2019s parent company Meta agreed to pay a similar amount to settle a facial recognition-related lawsuit from Paxton last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Texas, Big Tech is not above the law,\u201d Paxton said in a statement<\/a>. \u201cFor years, Google secretly tracked people\u2019s movements, private searches, and even their voiceprints and facial geometry through their products and services. I fought back and won.\u201d<\/p>\n

Paxton\u2019s office also said this is the \u201chighest recovery nationwide against Google for any attorney general\u2019s enforcement of state privacy laws.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Google spokesperson said the company is settling the lawsuits without any admission of wrongdoing or liability, and without having to change any of its products.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis settles a raft of old claims, many of which have already been resolved elsewhere, concerning product policies we have long since changed,\u201d said spokesperson Jos\u00e9 Casta\u00f1eda in a statement. \u201cWe are pleased to put them behind us, and we will continue to build robust privacy controls into our services.\u201d<\/p>\n

Google won some earlier victories in these suits, for example with an app<\/a>eals court ruling that the company lacks sufficient ties to Texas<\/a> to face a lawsuit there. The company had initially responding by saying Paxton mischaracterized its products<\/a> \u201cin another breathless lawsuit\u201d \u2014 for example, the company said Google Photos only scanned users\u2019 faces in order to group similar photos together, and that it did not use the feature for advertising.<\/p>\n

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The settlement comes after major antitrust rulings finding that Google acted illegally to maintain monopolies in web search and advertising tech, with proposed remedies including the divestment of Chrome. (Google has said it will appeal both rulings.)<\/p>\n

Paxton, meanwhile, recently announced that he will challenge U.S. Senator John Cornyn<\/a> in next year\u2019s mid-term elections.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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