Re:Texas Sues Google for Collecting Biometric Data Without C...
by weberer on Friday October 21, 2022 @02:24PM
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>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:
Re:Texas Sues Google for Collecting Biometric Data Without C...
by shadowgovt on Friday October 21, 2022 @04:25PM
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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.
Doing things at scale isn't a crime. Can you point out which law google broke?