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Texas sues Meta’s Facebook over facial-recognition practices, Marketing & Advertising News, ET BrandEquity

Representative image (iStock) The Texas attorney general’s office sued Meta‘s Facebook on Monday, alleging that the social media giant violated state privacy protections with facial-recognition technology that collected the biometric data of millions of Texans without their consent. The lawsuit accuses Facebook of capturing biometric information from photos and videos that users uploaded without consent, disclosing the information to others and failing to destroy it within a reasonable time. “This is yet another example of Big Tech‘s deceitful business practices and it must stop. I will continue […]

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Ohio retirement fund sues Facebook over investment loss, Marketing & Advertising News, ET BrandEquity

Ohio‘s largest public employee pension fund has sued Facebook – now known as Meta – alleging that it broke federal securities law by purposely misleading the public about the negative effects of its social platforms and the algorithms that run them. The lawsuit by the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System specifically claims that Facebook buried inconvenient findings about how the company has managed those algorithms as well as the steps it said it was taking to protect the public. The suit also contends claims that Facebook knew […]

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