# Meta Sued Over Training Data for Its AI and Face-Recognition Systems

**Published:** September 11, 2026
**Author:** Dhruv Mehrotra
**Source:** Wired — Artificial Intelligence
**Language:** en-US
**HTML:** https://aiqazaqstan.com/en/articles/meta-sued-over-training-data-for-its-ai-and-face-recognition-systems

The proposed class action alleges Meta illegally harvested people’s Facebook and Instagram photos to train its AI image-generation models and to build its unreleased “NameTag” face recognition feature.

> From the original source: **Wired — Artificial Intelligence**
> [Read full article at Wired — Artificial Intelligence](https://www.wired.com/story/meta-sued-over-training-data-for-its-ai-and-face-recognition-systems/)

---

*AI Qazaqstan — non-commercial informational portal about AI in Kazakhstan. Machine translations and summaries are AI-generated.*