The state of Texas is suing Facebook’s parent company Meta over its collection of facial recognition data. The lawsuit, filed on February 14, accuses the social media company of illegally capturing biometric information from pictures and videos of users. Biometric systems are designed to collect biological data that is unique to each person in order to identify individuals. Facial recognition is one kind of biometric method. Such systems use similar methods to those used in fingerprinting technology. The lawsuit says that Facebook collected the biometric data for business purposes. It also accused the company of sharing the information with third parties and failing to destroy the information within a reasonable amount of time.