{"id":839061,"date":"2024-07-31T09:54:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T04:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=839061"},"modified":"2024-07-31T10:02:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T04:32:46","slug":"meta-to-pay-1-4-billion-in-texas-facial-recognition-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/07\/31\/meta-to-pay-1-4-billion-in-texas-facial-recognition-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta to pay $1.4 billion in Texas facial recognition settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media giant Meta Platforms has agreed to a hefty $1.4 billion settlement with the state of Texas to resolve a lawsuit alleging the company\u2019s misuse of facial recognition technology. The settlement marks a significant victory for Texas in its battle to protect consumer privacy.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit, filed in 2022, accused Meta, the parent company of Facebook, of illegally collecting biometric data from millions of Texans without their explicit consent. This data was allegedly collected through a feature called \u201cTag Suggestions\u201d which used facial recognition to identify people in photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media giant Meta Platforms has agreed to a hefty $1.4 billion settlement with the state of Texas to resolve a lawsuit alleging the company\u2019s misuse of facial recognition technology. The settlement marks a significant victory for Texas in its battle to protect consumer privacy. The lawsuit, filed in 2022, accused Meta, the parent company of Facebook, of illegally collecting biometric data from millions of Texans without their explicit consent. This data was allegedly collected through a feature called \u201cTag Suggestions\u201d which used facial recognition to identify people in photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-839061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=839061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}