The Texas Attorney General has filed a lawsuit against Meta
Attorney General of Texas Meta to the company snowfiled a lawsuit. According to him, belonging to the company Meta and Facebooknot used for a certain period of time face scanning technology Violated the privacy of Texas residents. According to people familiar with the matter, the lawsuit is worth billions dollars requires the imposition of an administrative fine in the amount of Attorney General of Texas Ken Paxton said in a statement that, Facebook by users 2010from the end of 2021 social The facial scanning technology used in the photos uploaded to the network has violated a number of Texas laws. “Facebook secretly collects personal information of Texas residents for their own corporate benefit, ”the prosecutor said.
Meta, in turn, has not yet reacted to this issue. It should be noted that, The company had previously filed a similar lawsuit in Illinois. The company at that time 650 million dollars had paid compensation. The collective lawsuit filed in 2015 could not be refuted by the company and 2020In, he accepted the payment of compensation. The Texas state attorney said that, Facebook’s facial scanning system did not take into account the state’s legal requirements for facial features. Texas law allows users without their permission biometric data stack up and prohibits the exchange of such information. Unlike the laws of Illinois that led to the collective lawsuit, the laws of Texas can only be enforced by the Attorney General.
The state of Texas in turn is the former the law violations according to To the meta company snowseeks to impose civil sanctions. The state also prohibits any illegal use of information that may be obtained by face scanning systems in the future snowaimed to get the bottle. According to the Attorney General, Meta may use the information collected in violation of the civil rights of Texas residents as an additional source of income. He said that, The company obtained information obtained by scanning the faces of store visitors from those individuals social obtained patents for systems that compare with user accounts on the network. It should be noted that, At the end of last year, the company Meta face scanning technology social After refusing to use the network, the state of Texas demanded that the company not delete existing data.