Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Friday announced that the state had secured a nearly $1.4 billion settlement with Google over a case regarding Texans’ data privacy and security rights.
The state sued Google in 2022 for illegally tracking and collecting Texan Chrome users’ private locations, incognito search data and biometric data.
Paxton’s office said the settlement marks the highest amount a state has received against Google in similar cases, with the largest previous settlement over privacy violations being $93 million.
