Google has agreed to resolve the case because it is engaged in government efforts to break down his business.
Texas Chief Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement on Friday that the search engine giant agreed to pay $ 1.375 billion in Texas to resolve two cases accusing Google data privacy and security.
“In 2022, Attorney General Paxton met Google that he did not follow and collected users' private data on geographical location, Incognito searches and biometric data,” the statement said. “After years of aggressive litigation, Attorney General Paxton agreed to resolve data requirements against Google against Google for the amount that far beyond all other state claims for similar violations.”
Settlement does not mean that Google has admitted any error. A Google spokesman did not immediately respond to the commentary request.
In 2024, Meta Paxton settled a similar case accused of illegally collecting people's personal biometric data. Meta agreed to pay the state $ 1.4 billion.
For Google's parent company Alphabet, billing is only one of the many legal headaches that the technical giant has had to deal with in recent years.
In August last year, Google lost an anti -monopoly case of landmarks, which found that it had a search engine business monopoly. The company is now in the middle of a court battle with the Ministry of Justice to understand what to do in the light of the decision. Doj wants the company to surrender its Chrome web browser.
During the development of legal remedies, Apple's management admitted on Wednesday that in the Apple Safari Browser, where as a default engine, Google search, search volume, fell for the first time for more than 20 years, partly to AI, causing more than 8%on Wednesday.
Google said in response that the company will continue to “search for new features” as general search queries have increased.
In a separate anti -monopoly monopoly case, the Federal Judge of Virginia decided that Google had an illegal monopoly of advertising technology.
According to the company, he intends to appeal the decision.
