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Meta sued for unlawful use of biometric data without user consent

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 business practices and it must stop,” Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, said in a statement. The lawsuit also highlighted that the company has already paid a fine of $650 million for engaging in this same conduct in Illinois and claimed to have stopped it’s invasive facial-recognition tech in late 2021.

The Hindu

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