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The State of Texas and Meta Platforms Inc. (“Meta”) have agreed to a $1.4 billion settlement, to be paid out over five years, to resolve claims relating to Meta’s alleged use of facial recognition technology without user consent.  This settlement marks the largest privacy settlement obtained by a single state and is the first one…

On May 28, Texas became the sixth state this year to pass a comprehensive data protection law.  Although the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (“TDPSA”) is largely in line with the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act and other recently passed state privacy laws, it has a few key distinctions that may cause…