Google will pay Texas $1.4B to settle claims over user data collection

Google has agreed to pay $1.4 billion to Texas to settle claims that the company collected users’ data without permission, the state’s attorney general said Friday. Jeff Chiu/AP

Jeff Chiu/AP

Google will pay $1.4 billion to Texas to settle claims the company collected users’ data without permission, the state’s attorney general announced Friday.

Attorney General Ken Paxton described the settlement as sending a message to tech companies that he will not allow them to make money off of “selling away our rights and freedoms.”

“In Texas, Big Tech is not above the law.” Paxton said in a statement. “For years,

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