Google agreed to pay $ 1.375 billion achieved with the Texas State of these allegations in Friday injured the confidentiality of the user, General Texas lawyer, Ken Paxton, said on Friday.
The agreement settles two lawsuits that included three products for alleged violation of the Law on Texas consumer protection.
“In Texas, great technology is not above the law. He secretly monitored the movements of people, private searches, and even his geometry on his face and back,” said Paxton in the statement.
Details of settlements have not been detected.
The Texas General Attorney did not say that the money would be used.
Google said that the agreement solves the requirements covering the incognito regime, location history and the biometry related. The company did not recognize any injustices.
“This inhabits the raft of old receivables, many of which are already solved elsewhere, concerning the policy policies we have long changed,” said the statement from José Castañede, Google-Google spokesperson. “We are pleased to put them behind us, and we will continue to build a robust privacy control in our services.”
Paxton sued Google twice in 2022. year, stating that he collected the residents of Texas for records of his geometry of persons and votes without obtaining appropriate consent. He also cited the location of the company to track users even when they thought they disabled the feature and caught users about anonymous mode, which is intended for providing private browsing.
The settlement does not require product change, according to Google spokesperson. The Meta Platform, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, agreed last year to pay $ 1.4 billion to settle with Paxton due to charges that have illegally collected and used information on person recognition.
2025-05-10 18:27:00
