Google has agreed to pay the US states of nearly $ 1.4 billion to resolve two lawsuits that accused the company tracking the users’ personal location and maintain a person’s recognition data without consent.
Payment of $ 1.375 billion paid that the technological giant paid for the settlement of such lawsuits brought by other US states. In November 2022 he paid 391 million dollars to a group of 40 states. In January 2023 he paid $ 29.5 million to Indiana and Washington. Later in September he dispersed another 93 million dollars To settle with California.
To the right originally filed in 2022 related to illegal tracking and collecting users’ data geolocation. Searching Incognitoand Biometric dataTracking the location of users, even when setting the location history was disabled and collected biometric data without informed consent.
“For years, Google secretly monitored people’s movements, private searches and even their voices and geometry through their goods and services,” Texas Prosecutor General Pokstan – Note In a statement.
“This $ 1.375 billion is a major victory for Texas’s privacy and informs companies that they will pay for abuse of our trust.”
Last year Google announced Plans to store a temporary scale card locally on users’ devices instead of Google accounts. The company has also launched other privacy management elements that allow users to automatically delete location information when setting location history.
Pay is also a rivalry 1.4 billion dollars fine This meta paid Texas to resolve the claim of the allegations that he illegally collected biometric data of millions of users without their permission.
Development occurs at a time when Google subject About intensive control control on both sides of the Atlantic, encountered calling parts of their business to satisfy antitrust regulation problems.
