October 20, 2022.
The Texas Attorney General filed a lawsuit against the tech giant on Thursday, accusing it of violating a state consumer protection law by capturing millions of users' facial and voice data without their consent.
The attorney general of Texas filed a lawsuit against the search engine.
According to the lawsuit, which was filed in federal district court in Texas, the company took in data from millions of Texans who used its products.
The Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier Act is a state law that has been violated bygoogle.
The lawsuit alleges features such as face grouping, which creates albums of certain people based on facial recognition records, are both "invasive" and "dangerous" because voice and facial data cannot be erased or replaced.
Civil penalties are sought for each violation.
The company is able to enhance its face scanning abilities due to the data it has, according to the author.
A person from the company argued that the lawsuit was overblown and called it another breathless lawsuit. The company does not use the data for advertising purposes, according to a statement to Forbes.
The Deceptive Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Act was the subject of a lawsuit filed by the state against the company. He sued the company again because they were accused of systematically tracking users without their consent.
The legality of facial recognition tools has been debated. In June of this year, a group of Illinois residents settled a class-action lawsuit against the company for $100 million for violating the state's Biometrics Information Privacy Act by collecting and storing the data without users' consent. It was one year ago that a judge in Illinois ordered Facebook to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in a lawsuit.
The Washington Post reported that more than 400 police forces across the country, including 57 in Texas, had partnerships with Ring in 2019. Police departments are required to request video from homeowners. In June, Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey sent a letter to Amazon questioning policy violations from 11 instances in which he said footage was taken without homeowners' consent. An Amazon official claimed that there were instances in which there was a danger of death or serious injury.
The state of Texas has filed a lawsuit against the company for allegedly capturing millions of people's fingerprints without their permission.
The New York Times reported on a lawsuit filed by the state of Texas against the company.
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