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This has been in the works for a while now. Over 1 billion faces captured. They say..ya know...that they deleted all that data.
If you believe that...well,,,you're more trusting then I am. i imagine that the Meta AI uses that data every day.
www.nbcnews.com
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has won a $1.4 billion settlement from Facebook-parent Meta over charges that it captured users' facial and biometric data without properly informing them it was doing so.
Paxton said that starting in 2011, Meta, then known as Facebook, rolled out a “tag” feature that involved software that learned how to recognize and sort faces in photos.
In doing so, it automatically turned on the feature without explaining how it worked, Paxton said — something that violated a 2009 state statute governing the use of biometric data, as well as running afoul of the state's deceptive trade practices act.
"Unbeknownst to most Texans, for more than a decade Meta ran facial recognition software on virtually every face contained in the photographs uploaded to Facebook, capturing records of the facial geometry of the people depicted," he said in a statement.
As part of the settlement, Meta did not admit to wrongdoing. Facebook discontinued how it had previously used face-recognition technology in 2021, in the process deleting the face-scan data of more than one billion users.
The settlement amount, which Paxton said is the largest ever obtained by a single state against a business, will be paid out over five years.
If you believe that...well,,,you're more trusting then I am. i imagine that the Meta AI uses that data every day.
Texas AG wins $1.4B settlement from Facebook-parent Meta over facial-capture charges
For more than a decade, the platform's "tag" feature collected biometric data from users' photos without properly informing them, Attorney General Ken Paxton said.
www.nbcnews.com
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has won a $1.4 billion settlement from Facebook-parent Meta over charges that it captured users' facial and biometric data without properly informing them it was doing so.
Paxton said that starting in 2011, Meta, then known as Facebook, rolled out a “tag” feature that involved software that learned how to recognize and sort faces in photos.
In doing so, it automatically turned on the feature without explaining how it worked, Paxton said — something that violated a 2009 state statute governing the use of biometric data, as well as running afoul of the state's deceptive trade practices act.
"Unbeknownst to most Texans, for more than a decade Meta ran facial recognition software on virtually every face contained in the photographs uploaded to Facebook, capturing records of the facial geometry of the people depicted," he said in a statement.
As part of the settlement, Meta did not admit to wrongdoing. Facebook discontinued how it had previously used face-recognition technology in 2021, in the process deleting the face-scan data of more than one billion users.
The settlement amount, which Paxton said is the largest ever obtained by a single state against a business, will be paid out over five years.
