Why has the State of Texas sued Meta?
2 years, 9 months ago

Why has the State of Texas sued Meta?

The Hindu  

The story so far: The U.S. State of Texas has sued Meta for using biometric data of users for commercial purposes without their informed consent. The document alleges that Facebook captured biometric information of the residents of Texas from their photos and videos uploaded on the website for over ten years and disclosed it to third-party applications for commercial benefits. The lawsuit also accuses Meta of running similar experiments on its image-sharing platform Instagram, although Instagram’s data policy mentions that users will be notified if facial recognition is introduced on the site. “This change will represent one of the largest shifts in facial recognition usage in the technology’s history,” Jerome Pesenti, vice president of artificial intelligence at Meta, had said. Previously in September 2019, Facebook had announced that it was discontinuing the tag suggestions setting under which the website itself could suggest its users to tag other people in photos and videos using facial recognition.

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Meta agrees to $1.4 billion settlement with Texas in privacy lawsuit over facial recognition
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Meta agrees to $1.4 billion settlement with Texas in privacy lawsuit over facial recognition

The Hindu  

Meta has agreed to a $1.4 billion settlement with Texas in a privacy lawsuit over allegations that the tech giant used biometric data of users without their permission, officials said Tuesday. “This historic settlement demonstrates our commitment to standing up to the world’s biggest technology companies and holding them accountable for breaking the law and violating Texans’ privacy rights,” Paxton, …

Meta agrees to $1.4B settlement with Texas in privacy lawsuit over facial recognition
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Meta agrees to $1.4B settlement with Texas in privacy lawsuit over facial recognition

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — Meta has agreed to a $1.4 billion settlement with Texas in a privacy lawsuit over allegations that the tech giant used biometric data of users without their permission, officials said Tuesday. “This historic settlement demonstrates our commitment to standing up to the world’s biggest technology companies and holding them accountable for breaking the law and violating Texans’ …

Mark Zuckerberg to give deposition in Texas lawsuit over facial recognition
11 months, 1 week ago

Mark Zuckerberg to give deposition in Texas lawsuit over facial recognition

India TV News  

A US judge has ruled that Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Meta must participate in a deposition as part of an ongoing lawsuit in Texas concerning the company's face recognition technology. According to a ruling made by Justice Jeff Rambin, the state court has rejected Meta's recent appeal "seeking relief from an order compelling the oral deposition" of Zuckerberg …

California sues Facebook parent Meta over alleged harm to young people
1 year, 2 months ago

California sues Facebook parent Meta over alleged harm to young people

LA Times  

California and 32 other states on Tuesday sued Facebook parent company Meta over allegations that it “designed and deployed harmful features” on the main social network and its platform Instagram despite knowing about the mental health risks to young people. “In seeking to bolster profits, Meta has repeatedly misled the public about the substantial dangers of its products.” The 233-page …

Lawsuits by Black plaintiffs over misidentification by facial recognition grow
1 year, 2 months ago

Lawsuits by Black plaintiffs over misidentification by facial recognition grow

LA Times  

Randal Quran Reid, shown at his attorney’s office last week, says the use of facial recognition technology by a sheriff’s detective in Louisiana led to his arrest in crimes he did not commit. “They couldn’t give me any information outside of, ‘You’ve got to wait for Louisiana to come take you,’ and there was no timeline on that.” Quran, 29, …

Meta sued for unlawful use of biometric data without user consent
2 years, 10 months ago

Meta sued for unlawful use of biometric data without user consent

The Hindu  

The U.S. state of Texas has sued Meta, formerly Facebook, for using biometric data of several users without their consent to build the company’s AI feature. The company is violating Texas’ Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier Act and the Deceptive Trade Practices Act by repeatedly doing this, the lawsuit noted. “This is yet another example of Big Tech’s deceitful …

Facebook parent Meta settles decade-old data-privacy lawsuit
2 years, 10 months ago

Facebook parent Meta settles decade-old data-privacy lawsuit

The Hindu  

Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. has settled a decade-old class action lawsuit over the company's use of “cookies” in 2010 and 2011 that tracked people online even after they logged off the Facebook platform. “Reaching a settlement in this case, which is more than a decade old, is in the best interest of our community and our shareholders and we're …

Facebook parent Meta settles decade-old data-privacy lawsuit
2 years, 10 months ago

Facebook parent Meta settles decade-old data-privacy lawsuit

Associated Press  

Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. has settled a decade-old class action lawsuit over the company’s use of “cookies” in 2010 and 2011 that tracked people online even after they logged off the Facebook platform. “Reaching a settlement in this case, which is more than a decade old, is in the best interest of our community and our shareholders and we’re …

Texas sues Meta over Facebook’s facial-recognition practices
2 years, 10 months ago

Texas sues Meta over Facebook’s facial-recognition practices

Live Mint  

The Texas attorney general filed a suit against Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. on Monday, charging that the social-media giant’s longstanding and now discontinued use of facial-recognition technology violated that state’s privacy protections for personal biometric data. In a statement, Mr. Paxton said the company’s capture of facial geometry in photographs that users uploaded from 2010 to late last year …

Texas sues Meta, saying it misused facial recognition data
2 years, 10 months ago

Texas sues Meta, saying it misused facial recognition data

NPR  

Texas sues Meta, saying it misused facial recognition data Enlarge this image toggle caption Tony Gutierrez/AP Tony Gutierrez/AP Texas sued Facebook parent company Meta for exploiting the biometric data of millions of people in the state — including those who used the platform and those who did not. The suit involves Facebook's "tag suggestions" feature, which the company ended last …

Texas AG sues Facebook parent Meta over facial recognition
2 years, 10 months ago

Texas AG sues Facebook parent Meta over facial recognition

Associated Press  

The Texas Attorney General is suing Facebook parent Meta, saying the company has unlawfully collected biometric data on Texans for commercial purposes, without their informed consent. Attorney General Ken Paxton filed the lawsuit Monday a state district court claiming Meta has been “storing millions of biometric identifiers” — identified as retina or iris scans, voice prints, or a record of …

The panoptic nature of biometric technology
3 years, 1 month ago

The panoptic nature of biometric technology

The Hindu  

Facial recognition technology has been deployed by social media platforms to tag a person in a photo or video, and by law enforcement agencies to nab criminals. Facebook isn’t the first company to be accused of using biometric technology inappropriately, and it won’t be the last as several large tech firms build and sell FRT tools to government agencies. A …

Facial recognition company sued by California activists
3 years, 9 months ago

Facial recognition company sued by California activists

Associated Press  

ALAMEDA, Calif. — Civil liberties activists are suing a company that provides facial recognition services to law enforcement agencies and private companies around the world, contending that Clearview AI illegally stockpiled data on 3 billion people without their knowledge or permission. The lawsuit says the company has built “the most dangerous” facial recognition database in the nation, has fielded requests …

Texas suing Google over alleged anti-competitive ad tech practices
4 years ago

Texas suing Google over alleged anti-competitive ad tech practices

The Hindu  

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced that he was leading a lawsuit against Google, accusing the tech giant of taking “illegal” actions to hurt competition in the advertising technology market. Texas’ lawsuit will go after Google’s stranglehold on its corner of the ad tech market, which it and fellow tech giant Facebook dominate. Mr. Paxton has long been a …

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