Meta Agrees to $1.4B Settlement With Texas Over Biometric Privacy
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Meta agreed to pay $1.4 billion to settle a Texas lawsuit alleging the company ran facial recognition on photos and captured/stored Texans' biometric identifiers without explicit consent for more than a decade, violating the state's Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier (CUBI) Act; the settlement, filed after a February 2022 suit, is the largest ever obtained by a single state under that law.
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