Facebook's facial identification technology has been the subject of judicial action in the past, the latest which comes from Texas, who are suing Meta over facial recognition software.
The Texas attorney general's office lodged a lawsuit against Facebook, which rebranded itself to Meta the year before, on Monday, contending that the social media network breached state privacy laws with face identification technology.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched the complaint in a state district court in Marshall, demanding hundreds of billions in civil damages.
Paxton accused Facebook of "harvesting Texans' most personal information" via face detection technology it employed from 2010 to last year for "corporate profit," according to a statement on the lawsuit. Face detection records from users' photos would be scanned and stored by the application.
“Texas law has prohibited such harvesting without informed consent for over 20 y...