Google has agreed to settle multiple data privacy lawsuits brought by Texas Attorney General (AG) Ken Paxton by paying $1.375 billion, the AG’s office said in a May 9 statement.
This is the “highest recovery nationwide against Google for any attorney general’s enforcement of state privacy laws,” said the statement. “To date, no state has attained a settlement against Google for similar data-privacy violations greater than $93 million.”
The settlement was made for multiple lawsuits related to geolocation, biometric data, and incognito searches brought by Paxton against Google in 2022 that accused the company of violating Texans’ data privacy rights.
A lawsuit filed in January 2022 alleged that Google was “deceptively tracking” the location of users without securing their consent, said a Jan. 24, 2022, statement from Paxton’s office….