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Re:Texas Sues Google for Collecting Biometric Data Without C... by nova22033 on Friday October 21, 2022 @02:19PM (#33291296)
Your brain isn't memorizing billions of people's faces on the scale that Google is. There's a difference. It's a false equivalency.

Doing things at scale isn't a crime. Can you point out which law google broke?

Re:Texas Sues Google for Collecting Biometric Data Without C... by weberer on Friday October 21, 2022 @02:24PM (#33291356)
>Google had violated a state consumer protection law that requires companies to inform citizens and get their consent before capturing their biometric identifiers, including fingerprints, voiceprints and a “record of hand or face geometry.”

The law in question:

https://archive.ph/w9gtb

Re:Texas Sues Google for Collecting Biometric Data Without C... by shadowgovt on Friday October 21, 2022 @04:25PM (#33292650)
It's going to be an interesting case because it can easily be argued that Google captured nothing; they ran post-capture analysis on data captured by individuals for private use.

Whether that's relevant to the law is what the courts will have to decide.