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Texas Sues Meta Over Facebook's Facial-Recognition Practices

Monday February 14, 2022. 07:03 PM , from Slashdot
The Texas attorney general filed a suit against Facebook parent Meta Platforms on Monday, charging that the social-media giant's longstanding and now discontinued use of facial-recognition technology violated that state's privacy protections for personal biometric data. From a report: The lawsuit, filed in state district court in Marshall by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, seeks civil penalties in the hundreds of billions of dollars, according to a person familiar with the matter. In a statement, Mr. Paxton said the company's capture of facial geometry in photographs that users uploaded from 2010 to late last year resulted in 'tens of millions of violations' of Texas law.

'Facebook has been secretly harvesting Texans' most personal information -- photos and videos -- for its own corporate profit,' Mr. Paxton said. 'Texas law has prohibited such harvesting without informed consent for over 20 years. While ordinary Texans have been using Facebook to innocently share photos of loved ones with friends and family, we now know that Facebook has been brazenly ignoring Texas law for the last decade.'

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