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Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook) has once again become the focus of the debate on technology and privacy. This week, the social media giant led by Mark Zuckerberg announced that it would pay up to $1.4 billion to settle a five-year legal dispute with the state of Texas. The core of the lawsuit is that Texas accused Meta of using facial recognition technology to gain benefits without obtaining explicit consent from users, which is considered to have violated Texas's laws on personal privacy.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against Meta on Monday, demanding billions of dollars in damages. He pointed out that Meta's closed facial recognition system collected and used citizens' biometric data without the user's permission, which not only violated the user's privacy rights, but also violated relevant Texas laws. The data mainly came from platform users, from 2010 to last year.

This is not the first time Meta has paid a huge compensation for privacy issues. In 2019, the company paid $5 billion to the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to settle the FTC's investigation into its privacy practices. This series of events reflects that with the development of technology, how to balance technological innovation and user privacy protection has become a major challenge facing global technology companies.