Google will pay a $1.375 billion settlement to Texas over privacy

The bad news keeps coming on this Friday for Google.

$1.375 Bil­lion Set­tle­ment with Google Relat­ed to Tex­ans’ Data Pri­va­cy Rights

This settles a raft of old claims, many of which have already been resolved elsewhere, concerning product policies we have long since changed,” Google spokesperson José Castañeda tells The Verge. “We are pleased to put them behind us, and we will continue to build robust privacy controls into our services.”

And then there are these – also surprising – earlier stories: