The lawsuit from Texas AG Ken Paxton targeted Google Photos for recording, analyzing, and storing sensitive biometric information and also called out its face grouping process.
Google has agreed to pay $1.375 billion to settle two lawsuits accusing the company of collecting Texans’ biometric data without consent.
Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton says the deal is the «highest recovery nationwide against Google for any attorney general’s enforcement of state privacy laws.» Previously, the biggest payout was in 2022, when a coalition of 40 states secured $391 million from Google on similar grounds.
The Texas lawsuits also date back to 2022. According to one of them, Google violated a Texas biometric privacy law passed in 2009 when it unlawfully collected users’ biometrics without consent.
