By Hallie Golden, Associated Press
Google will pay $ 1.4 billion in Texas to settle complaints that the company has collected data on users without authorization, the State Prosecutor General announced on Friday.
In 2022, the prosecutor General Ken Paxton continued Google, saying that the research giant had collected millions of biometric identifiers, including voice fingerprints and facial geometry recordings, via its products and services such as Google Photos, Google Assistant and Nest Hub Max.
“In Texas, Big Tech is not above the law. For years, Google has secretly followed the movements of people, private research and even their votes of voice and their facial geometry via their products and services. I retaliated and won,” Paxton said in a statement on Friday.
Google did not immediately respond to an email asking for comments.
The news comes a little less than a year after Meta accepted a regulation of $ 1.4 billion with Texas in a trial in terms of confidentiality concerning allegations according to which the technology giant used biometric user data without their permission.
Originally published:
California Daily Newspapers
