- Google will pay its greatest state liquidation on data privacy problems
- The company had been tracking the geolocation of users without consent
- I was also collecting biometry and unknown searches
Google agreed to pay $ 1,375 billion to the state of Texas to resolve demands on unauthorized monitoring and data collection.
It was considered that the company had been illegally tracking the geolocation of users, even while the ‘location history’ was disabled.
Google had also been collecting biometric data, such as facial geometry and voice footprints, without consent, as well as the monitoring of incognito searches and other activity of private users.
Google will pay $ 1.4 billion for the collection of unauthorized data
The colossal sum could not be much for a company that generated $ 350 billion in revenue in the most recent fiscal year, but it remains a sum that could affect the company, marking the largest state agreement that Google has had to pay for data privacy problems.
In September 2023, Google paid its largest state liquidation of $ 93 million for accusations of deceptive users about how their location data were collected. At the beginning of November 2022, the company established a similar data collection complaint at a value of $ 391 million, but that was 40 states, not one.
“For years, Google secretly tracked people’s movements, private searches and even their voice footprints and facial geometry through their products and services. I defended and won,” said Attorney General Ken Paxton, who declared that “the great technology is not above the law.”
The 10 -digit agreement of Google follows a similar goal payment in July 2024, when it coughed $ 1.4 billion on illegal collection and using facial recognition data.
Paxton added: “This agreement of $ 1,375 billion is a great victory for the privacy of the Texans and tells companies that they will pay to abuse our trust.”
A Google spokesman said Techradar Pro: “This resolves a series of old statements, many of which have already been resolved elsewhere, with respect to product policies that we have changed a long time ago. We are pleased to leave them behind and we will continue to generate solid privacy controls in our services.”
