Walmart will pay $10 million to some Illinois employees to settle allegations it used a palm scanning device that violated their privacy rights. The deal could amount to a couple hundred dollars for each person who is part of the class-action settlement, which received preliminary approval from the Cook County Circuit Court last month. In a lawsuit filed in 2019, former Walmart employee Ethan .
Walmart will pay $10 million to some Illinois employees to settle allegations it used a palm scanning device that violated their privacy rights, a deal that could amount to a couple hundred dollars for each person.
Facebook will pay $650 million and change its data privacy practices as part of a record-breaking settlement that will end a six-year legal battle over its alleged violations of an Illinois privacy law.
The social media application, Facebook is displayed on Apple’s App Store, July 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Amr Alfiky)
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) A federal judge signaled Thursday that he will likely approve the largest known privacy settlement in U.S. history, despite arguments that the payout is far less than Facebook’s potential $47 billion in liability.
“The violations here did not extract a penny from the pockets of the victims, but this is real money that Facebook is paying to compensate them for the tangible privacy harms that they suffered,” U.S. District Judge James Donato said during a hearing on a motion for final approval of the deal.