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Paidsettlement · Texas CUBI / DTPA

Google's $1.375B Texas biometric and privacy settlement

$1.4B

Texas Attorney General

US (Texas) · 2025

Status: Paid

What happened

Texas settled claims that Google unlawfully captured biometric data such as face and voice identifiers and made misleading claims about Incognito mode and location tracking. It is one of the largest single-state privacy settlements on record.

How it affected users

Texans' biometric identifiers and browsing behaviour were collected without the consent the law requires.

Status timeline

  1. May 9, 2025

    Penalty announced.

Sources

Last verified 2026-07-02. Spotted an error? Report a correction.

Cite this entry

Deepak Gupta, "Google's $1.375B Texas biometric and privacy settlement," Tech Fines Directory, guptadeepak.com, 2025-05-09. https://guptadeepak.com/tech-fines/violation/google-us-texas-biometric-2025/

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