Google agrees to pay Texas $1.4bn over biometric data claims
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Google will pay $1.4 billion to resolve allegations that it collected users' data without consent. The state's October 2022 lawsuit claimed Google Photos, Nest and Google Assistant gathered the voices and faces of millions of Texans. Paxton called it the largest privacy sum a single state has obtained from Google.
Original report: Google agrees to pay Texas $1.4bn over biometric data claims