{"id":41178,"date":"2025-05-10T20:42:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T20:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/10\/google-agrees-to-pay-texas-1-375bn-over-data-privacy-claims\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T20:42:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T20:42:52","slug":"google-agrees-to-pay-texas-1-375bn-over-data-privacy-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/10\/google-agrees-to-pay-texas-1-375bn-over-data-privacy-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Google agrees to pay Texas $1.375bn over data-privacy claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State attorney general said company secretly tracked users\u2019 movements, searches, voiceprints and facial geometry<\/p>\n<p>Google has agreed to pay $1.375bn in a settlement in principle reached with the state of Texas over allegations the company violated users\u2019 data privacy, the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement settles two lawsuits that covered three products for allegedly violating Texas consumer protection laws.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/may\/10\/google-texas-data-privacy-settlement\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State attorney general said company secretly tracked users\u2019 movements, searches, voiceprints and facial geometry Google has agreed to pay $1.375bn in a settlement in principle reached with the state of Texas over allegations the company violated users\u2019 data privacy, the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, said on Friday. The agreement settles two lawsuits that covered &#8230; <a title=\"Google agrees to pay Texas $1.375bn over data-privacy claims\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/10\/google-agrees-to-pay-texas-1-375bn-over-data-privacy-claims\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Google agrees to pay Texas $1.375bn over data-privacy claims\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}