Meta Platforms has agreed to pay $1.4 billion to Texas to resolve the state’s lawsuit accusing the Facebook parent of illegally using facial-recognition technology to collect biometric data of millions of Texans without their consent. Meta is set to pay a record $1.4 billion in settlement with Texas over facial recognition lawsuitThe terms of the settlement, disclosed on Tuesday, mark the largest accord ever by any single state, according to the lawyers for Texas, whose legal team included the plaintiffs firm Keller Postman. The lawsuit, filed in 2022, was the first major case to be brought under Texas' 2009 biometric privacy law, according to law firms tracking the litigation. Texas and Meta said they reached an accord in May, weeks before the start of a trial in state court was scheduled to begin. Alphabet’s Google separately is fighting a lawsuit by Texas accusing the company of violating the state’s biometric law.

Source: Hindustan Times July 31, 2024 08:17 UTC