Welcome back. Google agreed to settle a data-privacy case with the state of Texas for $1.375 billion.
Texas attorney general Ken Paxton, calling the settlement the largest attained by any state with Google over privacy matters, sued the company in 2022 over the alleged tracking and collection of users' data by geolocation services and during incognito-mode browsing. The state also sued Google for allegedly collecting voice prints and facial geometry without consent in services such as Google Photo.
Paxton has aggressively pursued data-privacy cases against big tech companies, with state lawmakers enacting three data-protection acts since 2023.
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