Meta agrees to $1.4 billion settlement in Texas biometric data lawsuit over Facebook images
Publishing timestamp: 2024-07-30 14:12:11
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Meta agreed to pay $1.4 billion to settle a lawsuit by the state of Texas over the unauthorized use of biometric data of users from uploaded photos and videos on Facebook. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is continuing to press a similar lawsuit against Google owner Alphabet.
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