My Question is why only Texas is suing and how Google can continue collecting data on people in Texas going forward. What was the lawsuit really about? How is this only a one time fine and not the end of Google’s business model and practices of spying.
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Some other states had already sued. google claims they have already changed their practices (hah!).
Probably just a way for Texas to collect $1+B like they also got from FB.
These appear to be only token lawsuits so that states can collect some money before they allow the legal abuses to continue.
Any credible lawsuit against Google would need to create an existential threat to Google. To really stop the spying and abusive targeted advertising, Google needs to fear that they might really be driven out of business if they don’t change their practices so as to not profit from tracking anything about anyone on the internet. The terms of service need to change. Google needs to be denied Admin access to my phone. All Android phones need easy access to app stores that have nothing to do with Google, and that Google gets no data from. I don’t want Google to know which apps are on my phone, nor who is in my list of contacts. I don’t want Google to build any kind of profile on me, nor to include my name and information in any data that they sell. To take all of that away from them will take an existential threat. Lawsuits against Google, a billion dollars here and a billion dollars there are not about protecting public privacy. I don’t know what they are about. But I know that they aren’t going to stop Google from selling information about me.