The lawsuit states that there has been a law in Texas for more than a decade that has prohibited companies from collecting photos, voice recordings, and other biometric data of individuals without properly obtaining their informed consent.
Texans have become “cash cows”
The lawsuit also alleges that Google has been in flagrant violation of this law, collecting biometric data from countless Texans since at least 2015 and using their faces and voices for commercial purposes. Even a striking analogy has been made in this regard.
At the beginning of October, the state of Arizona fined the company $85 million for illegally collecting users’ location data. In January of this year, lawsuits were filed in Texas, Indiana, Washington State, and the District of Columbia regarding the same matter.