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
May 9, 2025
Penalty announced.
Sources
- Texas Attorney General newsroomregulator
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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/