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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on Tuesday that his office has secured a monumental $1.4 billion settlement with Meta, formerly known as Facebook, to halt the company’s unauthorized collection and use of the biometric data of millions of Texans.
The $1.4 billion settlement, to be paid over five years, underscores Texas’s unwavering stance on protecting the privacy rights of its citizens and sets a precedent for holding major technology companies accountable for their actions.
Attorney General Paxton’s office has been at the forefront of numerous high-profile legal battles, including antitrust lawsuits and stringent enforcement of privacy laws.
This landmark settlement is the largest ever obtained by a single state and marks the most substantial privacy settlement an Attorney General has ever achieved. more
I nominate Kenny Paxton for U.S. AG.
Why is Paxton the only one holding a rifle on the front line of this fight?
that was just for Texas.
fb collects data on everyone, everywhere. And they sell use of that data, not the actual data itself, to advertisers and probably government agencies.
I also didn’t see any mention of them destroying the data that they collected.
1.4 billion to them is just a cost of doing business.
Lot of facebook suckers out there. Never saw the need to participate, here.
Now you know why they tried so hard to get rid of Ken Paxton.
Great work, Mr. Paxton! I sure hope you got those future installment payments indexed for inflation.
Toby Miles
Paxton is TEXAS’s AG. His law Suite only pertained to Texas. The end of his jurisdiction. However he has set presidents.
Brad- I realize that. Unfortunately, other states don’t have the laws that Texas had the foresight to pass.
Good for Texas, but for everywhere else- business as usual for fb.
At least, this is an admission of what they do.
don’t use fake-book or other social excreta