Overview
- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a preliminary $1.375 billion settlement with Google over data privacy lawsuits filed in 2022.
- The lawsuits accused Google of secretly tracking users’ locations, private searches, and collecting biometric data without consent.
- The settlement surpasses all previous state-level recoveries against Google for similar violations, including a $391 million multistate settlement in 2023.
- Google has not admitted wrongdoing and is not required to make changes to its products as part of the agreement.
- The settlement is subject to final approval and follows Texas’s $1.4 billion privacy settlement with Meta in 2024.