Company file
Meta
Meta Platforms, Inc.. Menlo Park, California. Social networking, messaging, advertising, virtual reality.
1Cases on file
$1.4BPaid in penalties
0Open actions
0Admissions
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Texas takes $1.4 billion off Meta for scanning faces without asking
Surveillance. Largest settlement ever obtained by a single state. The claim: Facebook harvested biometric identifiers from uploaded photos and videos through automatic tag suggestions, in breach of the Texas biometric statute and its deceptive-trade-practices act. Meta admitted nothing and floated building data centres in Texas in the same breath.