Meta Faces New Biometric Lawsuit | Tech News

Meta’s facing another major lawsuit over secretly using Facebook and Instagram photos to fuel its face-recognition system NameTag and train AI tools like Emu and Muse Image — allegedly violating biometric privacy laws in Illinois and California. The tech giant’s smart glasses app, downloaded millions of times, reportedly contained hidden code designed to turn captured faces into digital fingerprints and match them against a local database — potentially sourced from user photos. This isn’t Meta’s first rodeo: they’ve already paid $650 million in 2020 and $1.4 billion in 2024 for similar violations. While CTO Andrew Bosworth downplayed early reports, later describing NameTag as a “remembering” feature, critics argue it’s part of a pattern of reckless data handling, even citing old Zuckerberg comments about user trust. Plaintiffs are seeking up to $5,000 per intentional violation and $1,000 per negligent one — potentially totaling billions if millions of users are included in the class.

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