Google Assistant

Google Assistant voiceprints are one of the two biometric claim sets in the $1.375 billion Texas settlement - Texas alleged Google captured voiceprints through Assistant and Nest devices without the informed consent CUBI requires. Voiceprints are a durable biometric: unlike a password you cannot change your voice, and unlike a face you produce it constantly without deliberate action. Assistant is also always-listening by design, which means the collection surface is a household rather than a user - guests, children and visitors are captured with no mechanism to consent or decline. Google admitted no wrongdoing and was not required to change the product.

• Severity
• Evidence tierUnassigned
• Claims confirmed
• Last verified2026-08-04

Case status. Private litigation; the legal tier of its sources has not been assigned yet.

Primary source. www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-ken-paxton-finalizes-historic-settlement-google-and-secures-1375-billion-big-tech — Verified - primary source confirmed.

Arbitration

Same as Google overall — see the Google/Alphabet row (Consumer Apps tab) for the full framework of major findings ($1.375B Texas settlement, RTB case, Incognito settlement, $425M Firebase judgment) that apply across Google's entire product family.

Contacts

Privacy contact. dpo-google@google.com (primary route is the Google privacy help form)

Legal notice. Not verified this pass. If publicly traded: SEC Form 10-K cover page gives the official corporate address; the Secretary of State business-entity search in the state of incorporation gives the registered agent, which must accept service. If private: the state registered agent is usually the only reliable route.

Mailing address. Google LLC, Attn: Data Protection, 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA