Google to pay $1.38 billion over privacy violations

Texas secured a $1.375B settlement with Google over allegations of deceptive location tracking, Incognito-mode data collection, and biometric data capture, surpassing earlier multistate recoveries; the piece also outlines Texas’s other legal wins against Google (Play Store, deceptive advertising, and search practices) and Meta’s $1.4B biometric case, all under state privacy and consumer-protection statutes, and highlights the AG’s new enforcement team amid the lack of a comprehensive federal privacy law.