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A Google division has agreed to a $1.375 billion settlement with Texas over claims that the tech company improperly gathered personal user information, according to an announcement by the state’s attorney general, Ken Paxton.
The preliminary accord represents a “landmark victory for Texans’ data privacy and security rights,” according to Paxton’s statement released late Friday. This resolution concludes a lawsuit initiated by Texas in 2022, which charged that the Silicon Valley, California company breached state regulations by monitoring and gathering personal information via features like private browsing sessions.
Paxton stated that this agreement represents the biggest settlement Google has made with any state concerning comparable data privacy infractions. Previously, the highest was the $93 million settlement secured by California from Google in 2023.
In 2022, the firm agreed to a $391 million settlement with 40 U.S. states to address claims concerning its data gathering methods.
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