Texas secures $1.38B settlement with Google over data privacy

Posted by byte-bolter on Friday May 09, 2025 @11:37PM
from the reuters.com dept.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/texas-says-it-secures-138-billion-settlement-with-google-over-data-privacy-2025-05-09/

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Re:Texas secures $1.38B settlement with Google over data pri... by cloverich on Friday May 09, 2025 @11:41PM (#43943055)

This sounds like a good thing to an outside observer. Can someone clarify if this is actually a good thing (i.e. not significant caveats), and perhaps contextualize it a bit?

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Re:Texas secures $1.38B settlement with Google over data pri... by ebfe1 on Saturday May 10, 2025 @12:35AM (#43943265)

Honest question: So who gets this $1.38B? The user? Some company? The government/treasury?

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