Paris: From ecommerce colossus, Amazon to social networking star Facebook, US tech firms that once grew with abandon have reined in hiring to endure tumultuous times. Internet giants that saw business boom during the pandemic have taken a hit from inflation, war, supply-line trouble, and people returning to pre-Covid lifestyles. Corporate belt-tightening was a common…
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Instagram filters disabled in Texas during facial-recognition lawsuit
Instagram has quietly disabled its filters for users in Texas, thanks to a lawsuit filed by Attorney General Ken Paxton that alleged their facial-recognition technology violated state law and residents’ privacy rights. In the lawsuit, Paxton claimed that Meta, Instagram’s parent company, “unlawfully captured the biometric identifiers of Texans for a commercial purpose without their…
Texans can no longer use certain Instagram filters due to facial recognition lawsuit
Certain filters on Instagram are no longer available in Texas thanks to a lawsuit about facial recognition, according to media reports. In February, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that he was suing Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, saying the company unlawfully collected biometric data for commercial purposes, without users’ informed consent….