Facebook co-founder and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg sits in his seat inside a bipartisan Artificial Intelligence Insight Forum for all U.S. senators hosted by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 13, 2023.
Leah Millis | Reuters
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg should participate in a deposition as a part of an ongoing lawsuit in Texas involving the corporate’s facial recognition know-how.
Justice Jeff Rambin of Texas’s Sixth Court of Appeals stated in a Tuesday ruling that the state courtroom has denied Meta’s latest petition “in search of reduction from an order compelling the oral deposition” of Zuckerberg at an unspecified date.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed the lawsuit in February 2022, saying on the time that Meta has been “capturing and utilizing the biometric information of hundreds of thousands of Texans with out correctly acquiring their knowledgeable consent to achieve this.” Attorneys representing Texas additionally stated Meta violated the state’s Deceptive Trade Practices Act by “failing to disclose data — together with the truth that it collects biometric identifiers — with the intent to induce Facebook customers in Texas into utilizing Facebook, which such customers wouldn’t have executed had the data been disclosed.”
In Tuesday’s ruling, the state of Texas claimed that Zuckerberg has “had distinctive private information of discoverable data” that is related to its lawsuit, alleging that Meta violated state legal guidelines associated to the gathering of biometric information and misleading commerce practices.
Meta settled a facial recognition-related class motion lawsuit in 2021 for $650 million. Attorneys stated in a submitting on the time that it was one of many “largest settlements ever for a privateness violation, and it’ll put at the least $345 into the arms of each class member in being compensated.”
Meta did not reply for a request for remark.
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