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Meta to pay $1.4B to settle Texas facial recognition suit over collecting data without consent
The lawsuit, filed in 2022, was the first major case to be brought under Texas’ 2009 biometric privacy law, according to law firms tracking the litigation.
nypost.com
Meta Platforms has agreed to pay $1.4 billion to Texas to resolve the state’s lawsuit accusing the Facebook parent of illegally using facial-recognition technology to collect biometric data of millions of Texans without their consent.
The terms of the settlement, disclosed on Tuesday, mark the largest accord ever by any single state, according to the lawyers for Texas, whose legal team included the plaintiffs firm Keller Postman.
The lawsuit, filed in 2022, was the first major case to be brought under Texas’ 2009 biometric privacy law, according to law firms tracking the litigation.
Meta to pay $1.4B to settle Texas facial recognition suit over collecting data without consent
A provision of the law provides damages of up to $25,000 per violation.
Texas accused Facebook of capturing biometric information “billions of times” from photos and videos that users uploaded to the social media platform as part of a free, discontinued feature called “Tag Suggestions.”
Comment:
Facebook should not be trusted.
Don't share any private information on it.
Big Tech is Big Brother.
They are watching you.
