Google will pay Texas $1.4 bil to settle claims the company collected users' data without permission
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In Texas, Big Tech is not above the law. For years, Google secretly tracked people's movements, private searches and even their voiceprints and facial geometry through their products and services. I fought back and won."
Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton wrote in a statement
Big Tech is not above the law,
Mr. Paxton said in a statement
This settles a raft of old claims, many of which have already been resolved elsewhere, concerning product policies we have long since changed."
A spokesperson for Google said
We are pleased to put them behind us, and we will continue to build robust privacy controls into our services,
the spokesperson said