Texas sues Google for allegedly using people’s faces and voices without consent

Google collected biometric data from innumerable Texans' and used faces and voices to serve commercial ends, complaint says

Texas is suing tech giant Google for allegedly collecting biometric data of millions of Texans without obtaining proper consent, the attorney general's office said in a statement on Thursday.

In its complaint, Texas says that companies operating in the state have been barred for more than a decade from collecting people's faces, voices or other biometric data without advanced, informed consent.