Tue Feb 15, 2022 – 3:42 pm EST
AUSTIN, Texas (LifeSiteNews) – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against Facebook parent company Meta on Monday, alleging that Facebook collected users’ biometric data without consent.
In a statement released Monday, Paxton said Facebook stored biometric data “contained in photos and videos uploaded by friends and family who used the app.”
Paxton maintains that the data was used for profit. “Facebook will no longer take advantage of people and their children with the intent to turn a profit at the expense of one’s safety and well-being,” the statement read. “This is yet another example of Big Tech’s deceitful business practices and it must stop.”
Today, I filed a #BigTech lawsuit against Facebook ⬇lt;br>
Facebook cannot take advantage of people and their children with the intent to turn a profit at the expense of one’s safety and well-being.https://t.co/NW0yp4oBCP
— Texas Attorney General (@TXAG) February 14, 2022
The lawsuit also alleges that Facebook collected the biometric data of non-users. “For Texans who did not use Facebook’s social-media services, Facebook was still capturing hundreds of millions of biometric identifiers from photos and videos innocently uploaded by friends and family who
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