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Meta Sued Over Training Data for Its AI and Face-Recognition Systems
Friday, September 11, 2026
Meta faced a proposed class action lawsuit alleging the company used Facebook and Instagram photos to train its AI image-generation models and develop a face-recognition feature referred to as "NameTag" without authorization. The complaint characterizes this photo use as illegal harvesting of user data. The lawsuit seeks to represent a class of users whose images were used in this manner.
