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Google will pay a 1.375 Billion Dollars settlement to Texas over privacy violations


Texas had filed two lawsuits against Google for how it handled users’ geolocation, incognito search, and biometric data.

Google is set to pay $1.375 billion to settle claims of data privacy violations brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, according to a press release. “This settles a raft of old claims, many of which have already been resolved elsewhere, concerning product policies we have long since changed,” Google spokesperson José Castañeda tells The Verge. A weekly newsletter by David Pierce designed to tell you everything you need to download, watch, read, listen to, and explore that fits in The Verge’s universe.

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