Facebook is giving $397 payments to Illinois residents as part of its facial-recognition lawsuit settlement
TechSpot
MAY 19, 2022
The suit, filed in 2015, alleged that Facebook's retired photo-tagging feature violated Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), which forbids the collection of identifiable biometric data without a person's explicit consent. This includes the likes of fingerprints, retina scans, and facial geometry.
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