Livestream After-Hours - Texas Suing Meta (Facebook) and Turning Macs and PCs into Chromebooks
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### Texas suing Meta for billions regarding privacy
- Texas AG is suing Meta (Facebook) for violating state law (allegedly), their "deceptive trade practices act". Facebook misled people and told them they weren't capturing their information.
- This is alleged, according to the Texas AG, Ken Paxton
- Facebook violated a 2009 statute that said they couldn't use biometric identifiers without consent.
- This is including iris or retina scan, fingerprints, voiceprint, record of face geometry.
- This lawsuit could cost hundreds of billions according to Paxton.
- Illinois had a lawsuit in the past that settled for ~650 M.
- Source: [Texas sues Meta's Facebook over facial-recognition practices | Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/technology/texas-sues-meta-over-facebooks-facial-recognition-practices-report-2022-02-14/)
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### It's possible to turn old Macs and PCs into Chromebooks
- This is now "officially" possible because of a Google acquisition of CloudReady.
- Source: [Google turns old Macs, PCs into Chromebooks with Chrome OS Flex | Ars Technica](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/02/google-turns-old-macs-pcs-into-chromebooks-with-chrome-os-flex/)
- Google is using Chrome OS Flex as an "answer to old Mac and Windows PCs that might not be able to handle the latest version of their native OS, or might not be owned by folks with budgets to replace the devices".
- My opinion: Definitely switch to any Linux distribution before going to a Chromebook. Don't limit yourself. With a Chromebook, you'd be extremely limited.
- Linux can run Chromium-based browsers - That already takes care of the Chromebook functionality.
- From there, you can then install from thousands of Linux applications that are far more powerful and privacy-respecting than a Chromebook where Google is just going to spy on you.