Texas slams Meta with record-breaking $1.4bn fine over facial recognition scandal

Texas slams Meta with record-breaking $1.4bn fine over facial recognition scandal

In a landmark development, American tech giant Meta has agreed to pay $1.4 billion to settle a lawsuit filed by the state of Texas. The lawsuit, initiated under Texas’s 2009 biometric privacy law, accused Meta of illegally collecting biometric data from millions of Texans through its facial-recognition technology. The settlement, which is to be paid […]