Meta to pay $1.4bn to settle Texas facial recognition complaint

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Written By Bruce Barcott

Facebook owner Meta has agreed to pay $1.4bn to the state of Texas to settle claims that the company harvested millions of citizens’ biometric data without proper consent. The original complaint accused Facebook’s now-closed facial recognition system of collecting biometric identifiers of “millions of Texans” from photos and videos posted on the platform without “informed consent,” in breach of a 2009 state law governing the capture or use of biometrics. Read the full Financial Times article here.

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