May 10 (UPI) -- Google will pay $1.375 billion to settle a 2022 data privacy lawsuit, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Friday.
The lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for Eastern Texas accused Google of unlawfully tracking and collecting users' private data on their geolocation, incognito searches and biometric data.
"In Texas, big tech is not above the law," Paxton said in a news release. "This $1.375 billion settlement is a major win for Texans' privacy and tells companies that they will pay for abusing our trust."
Paxton said the lawsuit is part multistate effort to hold Google accountable for data privacy violations.
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