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- Texas’ attorney general is suing Google for collecting data without consent.
- The law requires violators to pay $25,000 per violation.
- This is the first year Texas has ever enforced this 2009 law.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Google claiming the company collected biometric data without user consent. To prop up his case, Paxton is using a law that has never been enforced until now.
On Thursday, the AG accused Google of violating a state consumer protection law by gathering facial and voice recognition information without the explicit consent of people in the state, according to The New York Times. The filing focuses on three of Google’s products, which include Google Nest, Google Assistant, and the Google Photos app.