Meta CEO Zuckerberg to be deposed in Texas facial recognition case

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 docket of Appeals stated in a Tuesday ruling that the state court docket has denied Meta’s current petition “searching for reduction from an order compelling the oral deposition” of Zuckerberg at an unspecified date.

Texas Legal professional Basic Ken Paxton filed the lawsuit in February 2022, saying on the time that Meta has been “capturing and utilizing the biometric knowledge of hundreds of thousands of Texans with out correctly acquiring their knowledgeable consent to take action.” Attorneys representing Texas additionally stated Meta violated the state’s Misleading Commerce Practices Act by “failing to reveal info — together with the truth that it collects biometric identifiers — with the intent to induce Fb customers in Texas into utilizing Fb, which such customers wouldn’t have finished had the knowledge been disclosed.”

In Tuesday’s ruling, the state of Texas claimed that Zuckerberg has “had distinctive private information of discoverable info” that is related to its lawsuit, alleging that Meta violated state legal guidelines associated to the gathering of biometric knowledge 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 no less than $345 into the fingers of each class member eager about being compensated.”

Meta did not reply for a request for remark.

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