Texas Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Final­izes His­toric Set­tle­ment with Google and Secures $1.375 Bil­lion from the Big Tech Giant for Vio­lat­ing Tex­ans’ Pri­va­cy Rights

Attorney General Ken Paxton (R-TX) announced that Google has signed the historic $1.375 billion settlement agreement with the State of Texas, marking the conclusion of two of the largest data privacy enforcement actions ever brought by a single state against the tech giant. Attorney General Paxton previously sued Google for unlawfully tracking and collecting users’ private data regarding geolocation, incognito browsing activity, and biometric identifiers. The settlement obtained by Attorney General Paxton for these combined abuses far eclipses that of any other one state’s settlement against Google for similar claims, with the largest single-state settlement to date outside of Texas being $93 million.