Metaboss Mark Zuckerberg is set to be fired as part of a Texas lawsuit accusing the parent companies of Facebook and Instagram of using facial recognition technology without customers' consent.
The Texas Court of Appeals upheld a lower court's decision to require Mr. Zuckerberg to testify in the case.
The lawsuit, originally filed in 2022, accused Meta of “secretly collecting” biometric data from users in violation of state law.
The decision was a blow to Meta, which had been trying to avoid the removal of its president. Texas, on the other hand, argued that Zuckerberg should be forced to sit because he had “unique personal knowledge of discoverable information relevant to Texas' claims,” the filing said. Are listed.
Mehta did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the court's ruling.
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The Texas lawsuit alleges that Meta collected biometric data from photos and videos uploaded by its users, shared that information with other users, and then “failed to destroy the collected identifiers within a reasonable period of time.” claims.
Texas is said to be seeking hundreds of billions of dollars in civil penalties, with fines of up to $25,000 for each violation of applicable state law.
Mehta called the lawsuit “without merit.”
When the lawsuit was filed in February 2022, Texas Attorney General Ken Patton said the company “seeks to exploit people and their children for profit-making purposes at the expense of their safety and well-being.” ” he criticized.
Facebook's parent company announced in November 2021 that it would shut down its facial recognition program and move forward with deleting related data for more than 1 billion users.
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