“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,” according to the office of the attorney general of Texas.
It's against Texas law to capture biometric identifiers without the person's consent. The attorney general filed suit in February of 2022, and it's just been settled.
Meta is going to pay $1.4 billion to the state over five years, a deal negotiated through the lawyers nearly two months ago. Attorney General Paxton calls it a "victory for Texan privacy rights."
Google's owner, Alphabet, is being sued by Texas as well for "illegally collecting biometric data from millions of Texans."
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