Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has reached a settlement of over $1.4 billion with the social media company Meta (formerly known as Facebook).
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has reached a settlement of over $1.4 billion with the social media company Meta .
The CUBI Act “forbids companies from capturing biometric identifiers of Texans, including record of face geometry” unless the business properly informs the person that their data is being captured and receives consent from them. Paxton’s lawsuit alleged that Meta’s “Tag Suggestion” feature violated this law by running facial recognition software on photographs uploaded by users.
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