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Meta Faces Lawsuit Over AI Training Data Use
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- →Highlights ongoing privacy concerns in AI development.
- →Raises questions about consent and data use in training AI models.
- →Reflects Meta's continued legal challenges over biometric data handling.
Meta is being sued by parents in Illinois and California for allegedly using their Facebook and Instagram photos to develop a face-recognition system and train AI models. The lawsuit claims Meta violated privacy laws by extracting biometric data without consent. This legal action adds to Meta's history of controversies over biometric data use. Meta denies the allegations, stating that the lawsuit misrepresents their work and that no final decision has been made regarding the NameTag system.
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