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Feb 16, 2022

Texas sues Meta for collecting facial recognition data

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Texas is suing Facebook’s parent company, Meta (FB (FBK) ), over allegations the social media giant illegally harvested the facial recognition data of tens of millions of state residents for a decade.

The lawsuit, filed Monday in Texas’s Harrison County District Court, argues that a now-shuttered Facebook (FB) photo-tagging feature failed to get Texans’ informed consent before gathering their facial recognition data. The feature worked by analyzing faces in photos, including those of non-Facebook users, and recommending that Facebook users tag the people that the tool identified.

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  1. Candi says:

    Mark is right there with the corrupt & people that pump millions into the illegal acts that have been exposed & will be punished for his bs & it’s past time these ‘thugs’ are put in orange jumpsuits.,