Google will pay Texas $1.4 billion to settle privacy lawsuits

Google has agreed to pay the two trials accused of personal location of users, inkognito searches and voice and face information without the permission of Texas, Texas to pay $ 1.375 billion.

The lawsuits were brought by the Texas Prosecutor General Ken Paxton in 2022. Facebook’s parent company Meta agreed to pay similar quantities To solve a claim that is related to the recognition of Paxton last year.

“In Texas, the big technology is not above the law,” said Paxton a comment. “For years, Google secretly followed people’s movements, personal searches and even voice tracks and services and services.”

Paxton’s office said this is “national restoration against Google for the implementation of any lawyers of the Privacy Law”.

Google spokesman said that the company’s mistakes or commitment is not accepting or being legally behaved without changing anyone.

“This has already been solved elsewhere, which has been resolved in many places,” he said. “We are pleased to leave us behind and continue to build strong confidentiality control over our services.”

Google has won a number of victories in these suits, for example, decided by the Court of Appeal The company has enough connections to Texas encounter a claim there. The company replied first by saying Paxton has misrepresented “Another breathless case” – For example, the company scanned only users’ faces to group similar photographs of Google photos, and said it did not use the feature for advertising.

The settlement comes after the main antitrust judgments that finds that Google moves illegally to protect the monopolies Website Search and Advertising technologyby means offered, including the separation of chrome. (Google said he would complain about both judgments.)

In the meantime, Paxton, recently announced US Senator John Cornyn In the middle-term elections next year.