Meta told Wired in a statement that the latest “lawsuit is without merit and misrepresents our work.”
As Wired first noted in June, these “faceprints” appeared in the code for the AI companion app of its smart glasses.
An AI image generator Meta released called Emu was also trained on a vast swath of user-uploaded images and text.
The company has a long history of mishandling sensitive user data, settling a class action lawsuit in 2020 over an entirely separate facial recognition system for $650 million.
In 2024, it agreed to pay $1.4 billion to settle yet another facial recognition data lawsuit in Texas.