Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on February 14, 2024, that his office has opened an investigation into DeepSeek’s privacy practices. DeepSeek, an artificial intelligence company with ties to the People’s Republic of China, has been banned on state owned devices in Texas, New York, and Virginia. The Pentagon, NASA, and the U.S. Navy
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Texas Sues Google for Gathering Biometric Data
By Robinson+Cole's Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Team on
Posted in Enforcement + Litigation
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against Google for alleged “blatant defiance” of Texas’s biometric privacy law, which prohibits capturing biometric identifiers without prior consumer consent. The complaint alleges that several Google products, including Google Home, Nest, and Google Photos, collect and catalog biometric identifiers such as facial structure and voice print.
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Texas AG Sues Meta, Alleging Massive Collection of Face Geometries Without Consent
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in New + Now, Social Media
Texas enacted a biometric information privacy law way back in 2001, which was amended in 2009. That was a long time ago in the context of the development of privacy laws, and even longer when it comes to biometric information privacy laws. In this rapidly changing area of law, Texas was surely ahead of its…