Author Topic: Texas sues Google: search engine illegally captures biometric user data  (Read 271 times)

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Re: Texas sues Google: search engine illegally captures biometric user data
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2022, 06:59:44 PM »
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including both users and non-users who had no opportunity to consent to the capture of this data.

Ah... yes. Even if it's opt-in, the people in your photos didn't opt in. It's like what's happening with 23-and-me to some extent. They could potentially use that biometric data to build a massive facial recognition database of millions of people who have never uploaded a single photo to Google.