{"id":43456,"date":"2024-07-30T15:46:29","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T15:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=43456"},"modified":"2024-07-30T15:46:31","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T15:46:31","slug":"meta-agrees-with-state-of-texas-on-privacy-settlement-of-1-4b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2024\/07\/30\/meta-agrees-with-state-of-texas-on-privacy-settlement-of-1-4b\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta agrees with state of Texas on privacy settlement of $1.4b"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meta has agreed to a $1.4 billion settlement with Texas in a privacy lawsuit over claims that the tech giant used biometric data of users without their permission, state officials said Tuesday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said the settlement is the largest secured by a single state. In 2021, a judge approved a&nbsp;<strong>$650 million settlement<\/strong>&nbsp;with the company, formerly known as Facebook, over similar claims of users in Illinois.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a statement, Meta said: \u201cWe are pleased to resolve this matter, and look forward to exploring future opportunities to deepen our business investments in Texas, including potentially developing data centers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Filed in 2022, the Texas lawsuit alleged that Meta was in violation of a state law that prohibits capturing or selling a resident\u2019s biometric information, such as their face or fingerprint, without their consent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta has agreed to a $1.4 billion settlement with Texas in a privacy lawsuit over claims that the tech giant used biometric data of users without their permission, state officials said Tuesday.&nbsp; Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said the settlement is the largest secured by a single state. In 2021, a judge approved a&nbsp;$650 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":43457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[461,12],"tags":[8861,7396,5468,3577,988,12005,10619,10342,8396,10614,10236,11424,5355],"class_list":["post-43456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-world-news","tag-biometric","tag-data","tag-facebook","tag-future","tag-illinois","tag-judge","tag-ken-paxton","tag-law","tag-meta","tag-privacy","tag-tech","tag-texa","tag-texas"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43458,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43456\/revisions\/43458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}