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to pay $550 million to settle a lawsuit accusing it of collecting biometric data of users’ faces without permission—the largest ever cash settlement resolving a privacy-related lawsuit.
The lawsuit alleged Facebook violated the 2008 Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, which prohibits companies from collecting biometric data without user permission. The suit targeted Facebook’s collection of “face prints” to support its tagging feature, which uses facial recognition to automatically suggest who is in a person’s photos.The suit was filed in Illinois because it is the only state in the U.S. with a biometric privacy statute.
Facebook did not admit wrongdoing in settling the case, but agreed to ask users permission to use before collecting biometric data in the future. : “Biometrics is one of the two primary battlegrounds, along with geolocation, that will define our privacy rights for the next generation,” said Jay Edelson, one of the lawyers for the plaintiffs, in a statement.
Facebook $5 million for failing to protect user privacy in response, and the company has since faced more scrutiny for collecting swaths of data for its ad targeting operation.
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