2024-07-31 14:29:02
In the United States, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp, agreed with the state of Texas and will pay a fine of 1.4 billion US dollars for the illegal use of the biometric data of millions of Texans without their consent.
Published on: 07/31/2024 – 4:29 pm.Modified on: 07/31/2024 – 4:44 pm
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Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, agreed on Tuesday to pay $1.4 billion to the state of Texas. The US company is accused of violating the law on recording and using biometric data by using a resident’s data, such as his face, without his consent.
The Texas attorney called the settlement historic because it is the largest obtained by a state after a complaint against a large company.
At Meta, we welcome this agreement. ” We are happy to have reached an agreement and are ready to strengthen our investments in Texas, especially through the development of data centers ยป, replied a spokesperson for Meta when asked by AFP. The group even said that it is ready to strengthen its investments in Texas.
The complaint, filed in early 2022, is the first in which the State accuses a company in the digital sector of not respecting “the law relating to the registration and use of biometric identification”.
The program in question has been on Facebook since 2011. It is a photo recognition service. This facial recognition system allows the user to automatically give the user the name of the protagonists of the photo and the possibility of adding them.
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