Maybe some don’t know it, but for months Facebook which is now known as meta, has been in legal trouble for a certain use of the technology, since the state of Texas filed a lawsuit against it over two years that the company tried to avoid predicting the results. However, it seems that property Mark Zuckerberg yThere is not much to spare and it will be time to pay for their transgressions.
Thus, Facebook, through its parent company, agreed to pay the state $1.4 billion for violating privacy laws billions of times by misusing technology that collects information from its users’ photographs and videos without your consent. The ban, the largest imposed by a US state, ended a lawsuit filed by the prosecutor’s office Texas In 2022.
Attorney General Dr Ken Paxton accused the network of violating state privacy laws by using a tag suggestion tool to collect residents’ biometric data, such as facial features and fingerprints, without their permission. Texas law, in effect since 2009, requires companies to inform and seek consent from users before collecting such information and imposes strict restrictions on the storage and sharing of this data.
The company decided to accept the settlement to avoid protracted litigation. Although it has agreed to pay the fine in installments over the next five years, the company has not issued a public apology, which has been interpreted as a sign of agreement with approval but not acceptance of responsibility. The deal also reflects Texas’ strategy to attract tech investment amid increased government regulation and oversight of large companies in the sector driven by federal government initiatives.
Through: CNBC
Author’s Note: The question now is who will keep the money. If it is the case that they will not collect taxes in the state or use them for anything else.
