The social media’s parent company Meta disabled augmented reality filters on its platform across the state last week after Texas attorney general's office sued saying some of the company’s practices and features violated Texans’ privacy.
TEXAS — If you’ve been missing some Instagram filters, there’s not something wrong with your account. A lawsuit from Attorney General Ken Paxton is why Texans can’t access some Instagram and Facebook filters right now.
“The suit didn’t really relate to these filters very much,” said JT Morris, an attorney specializing in digital media and internet law. “What the attorney general is accusing Meta of doing is using facial recognition software to harvest, and then commercially use, biometric identifiers of users’ faces, without their consent.”
Meta denies ever using biometric data without user consent, and says the currently unavailable filters were not used to gather data. Morris says the decision to block the features for Texas users is more of a precaution.
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