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A federal judge on Friday approved a $650 million settlement of a privacy lawsuit against Facebook for allegedly using photo face-tagging and other biometric data without the permission of its users. U.S. District Judge James Donato approved the...
Facebook to pay $650m to 1.6m users over privacy dispute AFP/Washington Facebook logo on a screen at Nasdaq in Time Square, New York. — AP Facebook was violating Illinois law by storing biometric data in support of its face-tagging feature without users’ consent A US federal judge has given final approval to Facebook’s $650 million payment to settle a privacy dispute between the social media giant and 1.6 million users in the state of Illinois. “We are pleased to have reached a settlement so we can move past this matter, which is in the best interest of our community and our sharehold...
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A US federal judge has given final approval to Facebook's US$650 million payment to settle a privacy dispute between the California group and 1.6 million users in the US state of Illinois. The decision was issued on Friday.
Get Permission Ending six years of litigation, a federal judge has signed off on a $650 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit against Facebook for violating Illinois' groundbreaking privacy law that restricts collecting biometrics data. The lawsuit claimed Facebook violated the rights of 1.6 million Illinois residents under Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act. The Illinois law is unusual because it allows citizens to bring class-action lawsuits and receive statutory damages for privacy violations, says Steven Teppler of the law firm Mandelbaum Salsburg P.C. While other states ...