Instagram users in Texas and Illinois can no longer choose some of their favorite filters after Meta — the app's parent company, which also owns Facebook — disabled them "due to state facial recognition laws," Complex Magazine reports.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) filed a lawsuit against Meta in February, a Texas CBS affiliate reports, alleging the facial recognition technology was not being used properly. The Texas Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier Act requires that users give a company consent to store their biometric data, and that rule was not being consistently followed, the lawsuit alleges. A similar, recently settled suit in Illinois, likewise accused Facebook of storing biometric data from users without their consent.
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