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Google has consented to compensate the U.S. state of Texas approximately $1.4 billion to resolve two legal actions that alleged the company was monitoring users’ private locations and retaining their facial recognition information without permission.

The $1.375 billion payout significantly exceeds the penalties the tech behemoth has disbursed to resolve comparable lawsuits filed by various other U.S. states. In November 2022, it remitted $391 million to a consortium of 40.

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