Zuckerberg to Be Deposed by Texas Over Meta Facial Scanning (1)

Mark Zuckerberg can’t avoid being called for a deposition in Texas’s multibillion-dollar lawsuit alleging that Meta Platforms Inc. profits from facial recognition technology without user consent, a state appeals court ruled.

Tuesday’s decision left in place a lower-court order compelling Zuckerberg’s testimony after Texas argued the social network company’s chief executive officer has “unique personal knowledge” of information relevant to the case.

The 2022 suit alleged that Facebook monetized people’s faces without their permission until late 2021 while maintaining a database of facial profiles. Meta announced in November 2021 that it would no longer use facial recognition for photos and ...