{"id":66,"date":"2025-05-10T04:12:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T00:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/google-will-pay-a-1-375-billion-settlement-to-texas-over-privacy-violations\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T04:12:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T00:12:04","slug":"google-will-pay-a-1-375-billion-settlement-to-texas-over-privacy-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/google-will-pay-a-1-375-billion-settlement-to-texas-over-privacy-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"Google will pay a $1.375 billion settlement to Texas over privacy violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/STK093_GOOGLE_E.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Google is set to pay $1.375 billion to settle claims of data privacy violations brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/news\/releases\/attorney-general-ken-paxton-secures-historic-1375-billion-settlement-google-related-texans-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to a press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Texas filed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/news\/releases\/ag-paxton-amends-google-lawsuit-include-incognito-mode-another-deceptive-trade-practices-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/news\/releases\/paxton-sues-google-its-unauthorized-capture-and-use-biometric-data-and-violation-texans-privacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawsuits<\/a> in 2022 against Google for \u201cunlawfully tracking and collecting users\u2019 private data regarding geolocation, incognito searches, and biometric data,\u201d the release says. Before now, no single state has \u201cattained a settlement against Google for similar data-privacy violations greater than $93 million.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">\u201cThis settles a raft of old claims, many of which have already been resolved elsewhere, concerning product policies we have long since changed,\u201d Google spokesperson Jos\u00e9 Casta\u00f1eda tells <em>The Verge<\/em>. \u201cWe are pleased to put them behind us, and we will continue to build robust privacy controls into our services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">In 2022, Google agreed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/11\/14\/23458460\/google-392-million-settlement-location-tracking-lawsuit-attorneys-general\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to pay<\/a> $391.5 million to 40 states over allegations of location tracking without user consent. Last year, Meta agreed to a $1.4 billion settlement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/7\/30\/24209538\/meta-settlement-facial-recognition-tag-suggestion-texas-lawsuit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">with Texas<\/a> over facial recognition and photo tags.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is set to pay $1.375 billion to settle claims of data privacy violations brought by Texas Attorney General Ken [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/STK093_GOOGLE_E-Xrr4cg.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}