Meta To Pay Texas Record $1.4B For Biometric Usage

July 31, 2024 Business, Technology

Meta agreed to pay a record $1.4 billion to settle a lawsuit by the state of Texas over the Facebook owner’s unauthorized use of biometric data by users, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Tuesday.

The suit, filed by Paxton in February 2022, accused Meta of capturing and using the biometric data of millions of Texas residents — which was contained in uploaded photos and videos on Facebook — without legally required permissions.

The attorney general’s office said Facebook stored billions of biometric identifiers without customers’ consent after introducing a new feature in 2011 called “Tag Suggestions.”

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