Meta to pay $1.4 billion settlement after Texas facial recognition complaint

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Meta to pay $1.4 billion settlement after Texas facial recognition complaint - Ars Technica

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Facebook’s parent accused of gathering data from photos and videos without "informed consent".

It also marks one of the largest penalties levied at Meta by regulators, second only to a $5 billion settlement it paid the US Federal Trade Commission in 2019 for the misuse of user data in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal.

The settlement, to be paid over five years, is the largest ever obtained from an action brought by a single US state, said a statement from Attorney General Ken Paxton.