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More Parents Sue Meta over How It Treats Their Children

The proposed class action says Meta extracted biometric faceprints from user photos and trained AI models without notice or consent, with millions potentially affected.

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Parents in Illinois and California are taking Meta to court over how it collects facial recognition data from Meta Glasses, colloquially known in some circles as “pervert glasses.” Per ‌Wired, a new lawsuit filed by Illinois resident Francisco Alvarez and his son and California resident Jeremy Wahl and his daughter accuses Meta of illegally collecting the Facebook and Instagram photos of children for its harassment-forward tech specs’ facial rec…

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Meta Sued Over Training Data for Its AI and Face-Recognition Systems

The proposed class action alleges Meta illegally harvested people’s Facebook and Instagram photos to train its AI image-generation models and to build its unreleased “NameTag” face recognition feature.

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Chicago: A lawsuit has been filed in a US court against Meta, alleging that it used photos of Facebook and Instagram users to train facial recognition systems and generative AI models.

Meta faces a collective lawsuit proposed in the United States that accuses the company of collecting faces of users and non-users to create biometric data and develop NameTag, a face recognition function for smart glasses. The case could expose the company to billions of dollars and set limits for the technology industry.

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Meta faces class action over AI training data and secret face recognition feature

A ruling against Meta could reshape AI training norms, impacting tech giants' use of social media data and prompting stricter privacy regulations.

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Wired broke the news in San Francisco, United States on Friday, September 11, 2026.
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