Judge rules against Facebook in $650 million class-action privacy settlement

A judge has ruled that Facebook will pay $650 million to its users as part of a class-action privacy settlement.

News 12 Staff

Mar 1, 2021, 3:43 PM

Updated 1,315 days ago

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  • A judge has ruled that Facebook will pay $650 million to its users as part of a class-action privacy settlement. The suit claimed that Facebook’s tag suggestion tool stored biometric data without users’ consent, which allegedly violated the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act. The settlement orders 1.6 million people who submitted the suit be paid.
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