{"id":135700,"date":"2022-02-16T07:22:45","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T15:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/texas-sues-meta-for-collecting-facial-recognition-data"},"modified":"2022-02-16T07:22:45","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T15:22:45","slug":"texas-sues-meta-for-collecting-facial-recognition-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/texas-sues-meta-for-collecting-facial-recognition-data","title":{"rendered":"Texas sues Meta for collecting facial recognition data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/texas-sues-meta-for-collecting-facial-recognition-data3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Texas is suing Facebook\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/texasattorneygeneral.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/child-support\/State%20of%20Texas%20v.%20Meta%20Platforms%20Inc\u2026pdf?utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_name=&utm_source=govdelivery&utm_term=\" target=\"_blank\">lawsuit<\/a>, filed Monday in Texas\u2019s Harrison County District Court, argues that a now-shuttered Facebook (<a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/quote\/quote.html?symb=FB&source=story_quote_link\" class=\"\">FB<\/a>) photo-tagging feature failed to get Texans\u2019 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas is suing Facebook\u2019s 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\u2019s Harrison County District Court, argues that a now-shuttered Facebook (FB) photo-tagging feature failed to get Texans\u2019 informed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}