Google sued for illegally collecting people’s biometric information

According to the news of Reuters, the US state of Texas officials used works such as Google Photos, Google Assistant and Nest Hub Max to help millions of people in the state biometric datasued Google for illegally collecting it.

In the petition, photographs of individuals who have been in Texas for more than a decade without proper informed consent from companies, sound recordingsand other biometric information forbiddingIt is said to be a law.

Texans have become “cash cows”

The lawsuit is also about Google’s flagrant violation of this clause, at least from 2015He has since collected biometric information from countless Texans and recorded the faces and voices of these individuals. commercial purposes He argues that he used it for. Even a striking analogy was made in this bet.

Texans across the state are funded by Google for profit. “cash cows” is said to have become. On the other hand, the lawsuit in question is the first lawsuit filed against Google in the USA for improper use of user data. notLet’s remind.

At the beginning of October, the state of Arizona sued the company for illegally collecting users’ position information. 85 million dollars fined him. On a one-on-one basis in January of this year, Texas, IndianaLawsuits have been filed in Washington State and the District of Columbia.