Texas sues Meta for collecting facial recognition data

Texas sues Meta for collecting facial recognition data

2 years ago
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https://www.siliconvalley.com/2022/02/14/texas-sues-meta-for-collecting-facial-recognition-data/

Texas is suing Facebook’s parent company, Meta (FB), 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 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.