Meta has agreed to pay $1.4 billion to the state of Texas in order to settle allegations of harvesting biometric data without proper consent. This settlement, which will be paid over the course of five years, is the largest ever obtained from an action brought by a single US state and is also one of the most substantial penalties imposed on Meta by regulators, second only to the $5 billion settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in 2020 following the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal.
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