Meta will pay $1.4 billion to Texas, settling biometric data collection suit

Meta has agreed to pay $1.4 billion to the state of Texas in order to resolve a lawsuit that accused the company of illegally using facial recognition technology. The suit alleges that Meta used this tech to collect the biometric data of millions of Texans without consent. The agreement marks the largest financial settlement ever paid out to a single state. The lawsuit was originally filed in 2022 and was the first big case brought under the state's Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier Act, wh...