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ARTICLE · 31 JULY 2024

Meta Settles Texas Biometric Data Lawsuit For $1.4 Billion

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Meta has reached a $1.4 billion settlement to resolve claims brought by the Texas Attorney General. The Attorney General's office touted the agreement as the largest ever obtained...

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Meta has reached a $1.4 billion settlement to resolve claims brought by the Texas Attorney General. The Attorney General's office touted the agreement as the largest ever obtained from an action brought by a single state, and the largest privacy settlement ever obtained by an Attorney General.

Background

The lawsuit, filed in 2022, focused on Meta's use of facial recognition software in its photo and video tagging features. The suit claimed that Meta breached the state's Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier Act (the "Biometric Identifier Act") and the Deceptive Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Act. The Biometric Identifier Act states that a person "may not capture a biometric identifier of an individual for a commercial purpose unless the person first (i) informs the individual before capturing the biometric identifier and (ii) receives the individual's consent to capture the biometric identifier."

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Originally published by the New York Legal Ethics Reporter

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