Google to Settle $1.4 billions Texas lawsuit for Data privacy violations

Google has agreed to pay the state of Texas $1.375 billion to settle two lawsuits accusing the company of violating its residents’ data privacy rights. When the Attorney General filed the lawsuit, Google told Engadget that Paxton mischaracterized its products. One of Paxton’s complaints, for instance, was that Google used features in Photos and Assistant to scan people’s faces. The company’s spokesperson told us that Photos only scanned faces so that users can group images of the same person for organization. In July 2024, Meta also agreed to pay Texas $1.4 billion to settle a similar lawsuit that accused the company of collecting its residents’ facial recognition data. Are law suits enough to compell the Tech companies to respect human liberties ?