“The settlement, announced Tuesday, does not act as an admission of guilt and Meta maintains no wrongdoing.”
Meta pays Texas $1.4 billion for running facial recognition on Facebook photos without consent, in breach of a 2009 state biometric law. Tag Suggestions launched in 2011 and ran until 2021. The first $500 million is due in about a month, then $225 million a year through 2028. Ten years of scanning faces bought a payment plan, and Meta still admits nothing.