Google agrees to pay Texas $1.4 billion data privacy settlement

A Google corporate logo hangs above the entrance to the company's office at St. John's Terminal in New York City on March 11, 2025. Google agreed to pay nearly $1.4 billion to the state of Texas to settle allegations of violating the data privacy rights of state residents, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Friday. Paxton sued Google in 2022 for allegedly unlawfully tracking and collecting the private data of users. The attorney general said the settlement, which covers allegations in two separate lawsuits against the search engine and app giant, dwarfed all past settlements by other states with Google for similar data privacy violations. Google's settlement comes nearly 10 months after Paxton obtained a $1.4 billion settlement for Texas from Meta , the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, to resolve claims of unauthorized use of biometric data by users of those popular social media platforms. "In Texas, Big Tech is not above the law," Paxton said in a statement on Friday ... Read full article.