Google Photos

Google Photos face grouping is the other biometric claim set in the $1.375 billion Texas settlement, and Google separately paid $100 million to settle an Illinois BIPA class action over the same feature in 2022. Face geometry is generated from every face in your library - including people who never used the product, never agreed to anything, and have no idea their facial template exists because a friend took a photo at a party. That is the structural problem biometric statutes exist to address and the reason Illinois BIPA lets individuals sue without proving harm, while Texas CUBI reserves the right to sue to the attorney general alone.

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• Last verified2026-08-04

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