• Lodra@programming.dev
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    3 months ago

    I like that Meta is fined for this bad practice. But why are they paying the state? How does this help anyone that was actually victim of the facial recognition?

    I can see an argument based on how state funds help state residents. But it still doesn’t really feel right to me.

    A real tangential thought: What if fines claimed by the state didn’t increase the states fund? What if those funds reduced the tax burden of residents from the bottom up?

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      3 months ago

      I’d be good with it since I don’t have a FB account and so I get some benefit from them getting their PPs slapped. Because frankly, I have zero sympathy for anyone who still has a facebook account.

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    3 months ago

    This is one of the best cases of “When one of the worst cunts you know of makes a really good point.”

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      i’d wager it’s more about paxton trying to let zuckerberg know who’s boss, and that he’d better toe the line if he wants to stay in business

      the notion that ken paxton actually cares about commoners’ privacy is, um…sus

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      3 months ago

      This sounds like an excellent law so it is shocking as fuck that it came out of Texas.

  • umami_wasabi@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    From that title I thought Meta is going to pay Taxes $1.4b for the right to use facial recognition withou asking its users.

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    3 months ago

    Is this going to Texans or is it just going straight to the budget?

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    3 months ago

    When I read Paxton, I knew it wouldn’t be good for the people