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Africa-Press – Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>US-based global tech firm Meta agreed to settle for $1.4 billion in an unauthorized cap\u00adture of per\u00adson\u00adal bio\u00admet\u00adric data lawsuit, the attor\u00adney gen\u00ader\u00adal of the state of Texas announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The company, which is the parent of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, will stop its practice of capturing and using the personal biometric data of millions of Texans without the authorization required by law, Ken Paxton said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The amount of the set\u00adtle\u00adment is the largest ever obtained by a sin\u00adgle American state, while it is the biggest privacy settlement an attorney general has ever obtained, much more than the $390 million settlement a group of 40 states obtained in late 2022 from Google.<\/p>\n

It is also the first lawsuit brought and first settlement obtained under Texas\u2019s Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier (CUBI) Act, and it serves as a warning to companies engaged in practices that violate Texans’ privacy rights, said the statement.<\/p>\n

“After vigorously pursuing justice for our citizens whose privacy rights were violated by Meta\u2019s use of facial recognition software, I\u2019m proud to announce that we have reached the largest settlement ever obtained from an action brought by a single State,” said Attorney General Paxton.<\/p>\n

“This historic settlement demonstrates our commitment to standing up to the world\u2019s biggest technology companies and holding them accountable for breaking the law and violating Texans\u2019 privacy rights. Any abuse of Texans\u2019 sensitive data will be met with the full force of the law,” he added.<\/p>\n

Meta in 2011 had introduced a new feature, initially called Tag Suggestions, that it claimed would improve the users’ experience by making it easier for them to “tag\u201d photos with the names of people in them, said the statement.<\/p>\n

While Meta automatically turned this feature on for all Texans without explaining how the feature worked, it ran facial recognition software on virtually every face contained in the photos uploaded to Facebook for more than a decade, capturing records of the facial geometry of the people depicted, it added.<\/p>\n

“The company did this despite knowing that CUBI forbids companies from capturing biometric identifiers of Texans, including records of face geometry, unless the business first informs the person and receives their consent to capture the biometric identifier,” it said.<\/p>\n

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