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Enforcement · Settlement / consent order

Texas secures $1.375B settlement with Google over biometric and location data

Biometric Identifier Act (CUBI) Texas Biometric data

In May 2025, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a $1.375 billion settlement with Google, the largest privacy-related recovery by any single state against the company and more than triple the $391 million a multistate coalition of states had separately obtained from Google over related claims. The state's underlying lawsuits, filed in 2022, alleged Google continued tracking users' precise location even after they turned off location-history settings, kept collecting search and browsing activity while users believed they were private in Chrome's Incognito mode, and captured and used biometric identifiers, including voiceprints and facial geometry through products like Google Photos and Google Assistant, in violation of the Texas Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier Act (CUBI).

Why it matters Biometric identifiers captured through convenience features like photo face-grouping or voice assistants fall under standalone state biometric statutes, not just general privacy law, and an 'off' setting has to actually stop tracking, including in a browser's private mode.
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Published by Editorial on Sep 23, 2026. Not independently re-checked against the primary source — read it via the link above.

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