Meta to cough up $1.4B to end fight over 'unlawful' facial recognition of friends
Everything's bigger in Texas – even the settlement deals Meta will pay a record $1.4 billion to settle a lawsuit with Texas, which accused the Facebook giant of breaking privacy laws by performing facial recognition on people's photos without their consent.…
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