Attorney General Sues Facebook for ‘Billions’ of Violations -- For At Least $25 TRILLION

The greatly esteemed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who found himself standing at the forefront in the battle for election integrity has taken up another desperately needed legal battle on behalf of the people of Texas. This time he is taking a stand against the Big-Tech oligarchs of Facebook, alleging that the social network has been storing untold billions of protected biometric identifiers as defined under Texas law being “a retina or iris scan, fingerprint, voiceprint, or record of hand or face geometry” as are contained in photos and videos uploaded users as well as their friends and families who use the app.

Paxton goes on to allege in the lawsuit that is certain to be precedent-setting that in this clandestine activity Facebook has exploited the personal information of both its users and untold millions of people who never agreed to the product’s Terms of Use to grow its profits and corporate holdings to an enormous financial windfall to the tune of Trillions of dollars. Under this suit, Paxton charges that Facebook now known corporately as “Meta” has knowingly and willfully violated Texas’ Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier Act and the Deceptive Trade Practices Act by capturing biometric identifiers without consent billions upon billions of times.

Texas AG Goes After Facebook For At Least $25 TRILLION
Attorney General Paxton explained the lawsuit on Fox Business with Maria Bartiromo,
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AG Paxton: “So in Texas we have laws related to capture and use of bioidentifiers like facial recognition and your geometry of your face and in this case they have captured, we believe, millions of Texans’ faces and they’re required by law to disclose that they’re doing it and then get your consent and then they have no ability after that to transfer to other people or other parties without your consent. They did that as well. We’re talking about 20 Million Texans on Facebook. I don’t know how many on Instagram. They’re stealing the faces of people that aren’t on Facebook that happen to have their faces posted somewhere on Facebook.”

Maria: “So what can they do with this information? People didn’t know that they were using this biometric technology?”

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They don't have anything from me.

This is a good thing and a class action lawsuit was settled in Illinois over the same issue for $650 million last year and FB was supposed to discontinue the 'tool.'

$25 trillion sounds like a stretch though.