Google has agreed to pay the state Texas 3 1.375 billion to accuse the company of tracking consumers’ personal location, hidden search, and track and facial data without their permission.
The legalization was brought in 2022 by Texas Attorney General Ken Picterson. Facebook’s primary company Meta agreed to pay the same amount Last year, Picters set a facial identity case.
“In Texas, Big Tech is not beyond the law,” said Pictenon. A statement. “For years, Google secretly tracked people’s movements, private search, and even their voice prints and facial geometry through their products and services. I competed and won.”
Pakston’s office also said that it was “the most restoration against Google for the implementation of any Attorney General’s state privacy laws.”
A Google spokeswoman said the company was resolving the legalization of any wrongdoing or responsibility, and without any product.
Spokeswoman Jose Casta said in a statement, “This solves a fleet of old claims, many of which have already been resolved elsewhere, whose product policies we have long changed.” “We are happy to put them behind, and we will continue to control the strong control of our services.”
Google won some of the previous victories in the suit, for example with the decision of the Appeal Court The company lacks a lot of relationships with Texas There is a legal action there. The company initially responded by saying that Pakston brought his product wrongly “Another breath in legal flirtation” – for example, the company said Google Photos only scanned consumer faces to group similar images, and did not use this feature for advertising.
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This settlement has come after major decisions of non -confidence, which revealed that Google has worked illegally to maintain monopolies. Web Search And Advertising techWith the proposed treatment, including chrome discrimination. (Google has said it will appeal on both decisions.)
In the meantime, Pakston has recently announced that he will Challenge US Senator John Carrin In the middle of next year’s mid -term elections.