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The Brief Google and Texas reached a $1.4 billion deal to settle a recent lawsuit. Texas claimed Google tracked and collected users' private data illegally. Google says the company had already changed some of the policies that were under scrutiny. Google will pay Texas $1.4 billion to settle a 2022 lawsuit that claims the company collected users' private data without permission. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said the settlement is the largest amount won by any state in an agreement with Google over similar claims. Texas, Google lawsuit The backstory In 2022, Texas filed a lawsuit against Google, claiming that the company was "unlawfully tracking and collecting users’ private data." The claims were related to geolocation, incognito searches and biometric data. The state claimed the search giant collected millions of biometric identifiers, like voices and face geometry, through apps...

I use Notion every day. I also use Gmail and AI every day so in theory, the new Notion Mail is designed exactly for people like me. It takes your Gmail account, sets it up in the style of Notion, and connects to your Notion space while using AI to perform lots of little tricks. So, when this was announced, I obviously had to try it. I went all out, connecting both my work and personal email accounts to Notion, handing over full access to every email that comes my way. I’ve now been using the service for a few weeks, and I’ve got some thoughts about it: both good and bad. The good In true Notion fashion, this is an email system that is all about looking cool and minimal. In the middle of the screen is the usual email list screen, split into days. On the left hand is your settings… and that’s it. It looks and feels very similar to email systems you will have used before like Outlook or Gmail , just simplified. When you open an email or start to c...

Texas AG Ken Paxton sued Google in 2022 over claims that the company violated data privacy laws. The company agreed to pay Texas about $1.4 billion to settle two lawsuits, Paxton said. Google just lost a major antitrust case that could significantly change the shape of its business. Google has agreed to settle a case as it deals with a government effort to break up its business. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement on Friday that the search engine giant agreed to pay the state of Texas $1.375 billion to settle two lawsuits accusing Google of violating data privacy and security laws. "In 2022, Attorney General Paxton sued Google for unlawfully tracking and collecting users' private data regarding geolocation, incognito searches, and biometric data," the statement said. "After years of aggressive litigation, Attorney General Paxton agreed to settle Texas's data-privacy claims against Google for an amount th...

() -- Alphabet Inc.’s Google should be forced to sell off two of its businesses that help websites buy, sell and serve online advertising after a judge found the company illegally monopolized those markets, the Justice Department said. The company should be ordered to immediately sell off its advertising exchange, AdX, followed by a “phased” divestiture of the service that helps websites sell display advertising, known as a publisher ad server, the agency said in a court filing late Monday . A “comprehensive set of remedies — including divestiture of Google’s unlawfully obtained monopolies and the products that were the principal instruments of Google’s illegal scheme — is necessary to terminate Google’s monopolies,” the agency said in its filing. Google didn’t have an immediate comment on the DOJ’s proposal. In its own filing late Monday, Google proposed making its advertising exchange work seamlessly with rival technology and installing a monitor to ensure c...