Meta reaches $1.4B settlement over Texas biometric data privacy lawsuit
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Aaron Nicodemus2024-07-31T17:14:00
Meta agreed to pay $1.4 billion to the state of Texas to settle allegations regarding the unauthorized capture and use of personal biometric data of state residents.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the settlement Tuesday in a press release, calling it the largest ever obtained from an action brought by a single state and the largest privacy settlement ever obtained by an attorney general.
The details: In February 2022, Texas filed a lawsuit against Meta (formerly Facebook), accusing the social media giant of unlawfully capturing the biometric data of millions of Texans without their informed consent, a violation of Texas law, Paxton alleged.
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