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Google To Pay $1.375 Billion To Resolve Texas Privacy Battle
Wendy Davis, MediaPost (MediaDailyNews), 2025
Read the originalRead on October 19, 2026
- What it is
- A trade news report, dated 12 May 2025, on the Texas Attorney General's settlement with Google. It reports that the settlement resolved two lawsuits, one under the Texas biometric law, which alleged that Nest and the Google Assistant captured voiceprints, and one over location data.
- How much weight it carries
- A specialist privacy news outlet that reports the Attorney General's announcement and the complaint. Google's statement is quoted in other coverage. The Texas Attorney General's own release could not be read (it blocks automated access), and the settlement amount is not split between the voice claims and the location claims.
Facts taken from this source
- In May 2025, Google agreed to pay $1.375 billion to settle Texas privacy claims, and the Texas Attorney General alleged that Google's Nest and Google Assistant products captured voiceprints. The sum also covers a separate location-data suit, so the amount is not voice-only.
“Google has agreed to pay $1.375 billion to settle privacy claims in Texas ... He specifically alleged that Google Photos and Nest use facial-recognition software to garner faceprints of users as well as non-users who appear in images, and that Nest and Assistant also allegedly capture voiceprints.” (Opening paragraph and the paragraph on the biometric suit)