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ModerateImprovement@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Meta to pay Texas $1.4 billion for using facial recognition technology without users’ permission.

www.texastribune.org

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Meta to pay Texas $1.4 billion for using facial recognition technology without users’ permission.

www.texastribune.org

ModerateImprovement@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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Meta to pay Texas $1.4 billion for using facial recognition technology without users’ permission
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Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the Facebook parent company in 2022, claiming it had used personal biometric data without permission.
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    This is one of the best cases of “When one of the worst cunts you know of makes a really good point.”

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      This sounds like an excellent law so it is shocking as fuck that it came out of Texas.

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    From that title I thought Meta is going to pay Taxes $1.4b for the right to use facial recognition withou asking its users.

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      Tomato / tomato.

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    Paxton with Clarence Thomas in a private jet to Tahiti: “got ‘em!”

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    Is this going to Texans or is it just going straight to the budget?

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      At best it’d go towards property tax relief so the rich would benefit the most and renters get fuck nothing.

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    When I read Paxton, I knew it wouldn’t be good for the people

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      When I read Paxton, I was pleasantly surprised.

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