Meta to pay $1.4bn for unauthorized facial scans of Texas Facebook users

Facebook slurped up the biometric data of users in Texas—their faces—without authorization. Parent Meta will pay $1.4bn to avoid further legal action.

'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,' Paxton's office said.

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