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Google has agreed to pay $1.4 billion to the state of Texas to settle allegations it collected users’ biometric data without consent, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Friday. The lawsuit, filed in 2022, accused Google of harvesting millions of voiceprints and facial geometry records via products like Google Photos, Google Assistant, and Nest Hub Max.
Paxton stated that Google tracked user data secretly and emphasized that “Big Tech is not above the law” in Texas. The settlement is the largest of its kind for a state involving biometric data privacy violations.
The move follows a similar $1.4 billion privacy settlement Texas reached with Meta last year over unauthorized biometric data use.
Source: Swifteradio.com
