Texas scores $1.3 Billion settlement from Google for invading peoples privacy | Eastern NC Now

Google's business model has always revolved around collecting and selling the data of its users.  People concerned about their privacy should be smart enough to use Google's privacy oriented competitors instead of Google.

Now Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has secured a $1.375 Billion settlement from Google for violating the privacy of Texas citizens.   Paxton filed a 44 page complaint against Google in 2022 detailing Google's infringement on the privacy of Texans.  After the discovery process further sharpened his knives against Google's invasion of privacy, Paxton was able to secure the huge settlement in the lawsuit.  Among other things, Paxton was able to establish that Google often lied to its users about being able to turn off tracking.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/google-hit-historic-1-375-billion-settlement-secretly/

The highly successful and very conservative Texas AG is now running for the US Senate against RINO incumbent Cornyn and leading in the polls for that office.

For those concerned about privacy, competitive search engines with a better record on privacy include BraveSearch, DuckDuckGo, and even Bing.  BraveSearch is the most solid search engine on protecting user privacy.

https://search.brave.com/

Google's search engine is also notorious for being very politically biased and slanted.

For smartphones, Apple offers more privacy protection than the Google-based Android phones.  However there are a number of privacy based operating systems that can be run on Android phones after stripping out all the Google data collecting parts.  It is easy to find them on eBay by searching for "de-Googled smart phone".

There are multiple browsers that are alternatives to Google Chrome.  One of the most privacy oriented is Brave.  There are also many alternatives for email to Google's gmail.  One of the most privacy oriented is ProtonMail, which is based in Switzerland but available worldwide.

While attorneys general here are working to protect the privacy rights of citizens, the gloablist bureaucrats of the EU are working just as hard to force American companies to expose the data of US users.

https://amgreatness.com/2025/05/01/president-trumps-stake-in-europes-mauling-of-apple/