{"id":724,"date":"2025-05-13T15:18:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T14:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/?p=724"},"modified":"2025-05-13T15:18:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T14:18:43","slug":"google-will-pay-texas-1-4b-to-settle-claims-the-company-collected-users-data-without-permission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/?p=724","title":{"rendered":"Google will pay Texas $1.4B to settle claims the company collected users\u2019 data without permission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/download.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-725\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/download.webp 980w, https:\/\/techstream.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/download-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/techstream.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/download-768x512.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/google-ad-network-monopoly-penalty-073faf53cd757249f83d6eddabcb8e56\">Google<\/a>&nbsp;will pay $1.4 billion to Texas to settle claims the company collected users\u2019 data without permission, the state\u2019s attorney general announced Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Attorney General Ken Paxton described the settlement as sending a message to tech companies that he will not allow them to make money off of \u201cselling away our rights and freedoms.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/texas-google-settlement-8097e181cc7cb8522781db8a9a897eea\">To read more click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&nbsp;will pay $1.4 billion to Texas to settle claims the company collected users\u2019 data without permission, the state\u2019s attorney general announced Friday. Attorney General Ken Paxton described the settlement as sending a message to tech companies that he will not allow them to make money off of \u201cselling away our rights and freedoms.\u201d To read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":726,"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions\/726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}