Google to Pay $1.4 Billion to Texas, Settle Data Privacy Case

The settlement is related to multiple complaints alleging the company accessed users’ location and biometric data without consent.

People walk next to a Google logo during a trade fair in Hannover Messe, in Hanover, Germany, on April 22, 2024. Annegret Hilse/Reuters

Google has agreed to settle multiple data privacy lawsuits brought by Texas Attorney General (AG) Ken Paxton by paying $1.375 billion, the AG’s office said in a May 9 statement.

This is the “highest recovery nationwide against Google for any attorney general’s enforcement of state privacy laws,” said the statement. “To date, no state has attained a settlement against Google for similar data-privacy violations greater than $93 million.”