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In one of the largest data privacy settlements ever, a California federal district court judge last week approved a $650 million settlement to be paid by Facebook to nearly 1.6 million Facebook users in Illinois. The recipients of the payment will be those people for whom the social network allegedly created and stored face templates, in violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). Facebook faces potential additional liability in another biometric privacy action filed last October in Illinois, Whalen v. Facebook, Inc. In that case, Instagram users claim that the social media app, owned by Facebook, wrongly collected and stored their biometric data by using facial recognition technology on photos uploaded to the app. That lawsuit is in its initial stages. Facebook recently filed a motion to stay the proposed action, which it says must be arbitrated.