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Comment: Meta's $1.4 billion facial recognition settlement with Texas resets regulatory risk in state privacy cases

By Mike Swift ( July 30, 2024, 15:37 GMT | Comment) -- The Texas attorney general has reached a record $1.4 billion settlement with Meta Platforms over Facebook's prior use of facial-recognition technology to power its now-abandoned "Tag Suggestions" feature, which helped users identify people in photos they uploaded to the social network. The first billion-dollar privacy settlement reached by a state regulator is more than triple the size of the previous record $390 million privacy settlement a group of 40 states obtained in late 2022 from Google, and is a reminder that privacy litigation can now carry regulatory risks similar to antitrust claims.Meta Platforms’ agreement to pay $1.4 billion to settle privacy litigation filed by the attorney general of Texas over the social media giant’s use of facial-recognition technology, a record settlement for a privacy case filed by a state, instantly resets the bar for the scale of regulatory risk a large tech company can face at the hands of a state regulator....

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