May 10 (UPI) -- Google will pay $1.375 billion to settle a 2022 data privacy lawsuit, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Friday.

Google agreed to settle with Texas but denied any wrongdoing.

Texas AG Ken Paxton sued Google in 2022 over claims that the company violated data privacy laws.The company agreed to pay Texas about $1.4 billion to

Texas secures a historic $1.375 billion privacy settlement from Google over claims involving location tracking and biometric data use.

Google will pay $1.4 billion to the state of Texas, reports the Associated Press, "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 ...