- Google will pay its largest state settlement on data confidentiality problems
- The company had followed the geolocation of users without consent
- He also collected biometrics and incognito research
Google agreed to pay $ 1.375 billion in the state of Texas to settle the proceedings for monitoring and collection of unauthorized data.
It was judged that the company had been illegally followed by user geolocation, including “location history” was disabled.
Google had also collected biometric data, such as facial geometry and prayers, without consent, as well as monitoring incognito research and other private user activities.
Google pay $ 1.4 billion for unauthorized data collection
The colossal sum is perhaps not much for a company that generated $ 350 billion in income during the most recent financial year, but it is always a sum that could reach the hard business, marking the greatest regulation of the state of all time that Google had to pay on data confidentiality problems.
In September 2023, Google paid its highest state settlement of $ 93 million for allegations of deceptive users on how their location data were collected. Earlier in November 2022, the company set a similar data collection complaint in a payment worth $ 391 million, but it was in 40 states – not one.
“For years, Google has secretly followed people’s movements, private research and even their vocal footprints and their facial geometry through their products and services. I retaliated and won,” said Attorney General Ken Paxton, who said that “great technology is not greater than the law.”
The 10 -digit regulations of Google follow a similar payment from META in July 2024, when it spat $ 1.4 billion on illegal collection and the use of facial recognition data.
Paxton added: “This $ 1.375 billion regulation is a major victory for Texans’ privacy and tells the businesses they will pay to abuse our confidence.”
A Google spokesman said Techradar Pro: “This is a series of old affirmations, many of which have already been resolved elsewhere, concerning the products of products that we have long changed. We are happy to put them behind us and we will continue to establish robust confidentiality checks in our services.”
