Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorFacebook’s agreement to pay $650 million to settle class-action litigation alleging it violated users privacy via its photo-tagging feature — one of the biggest ever in a privacy lawsuit — has been approved by a federal judge.Under the settlement, Facebook users who submitted claims in the case (about 1.6 million people) will receive at least $345 each, according to the order.
The lawsuit alleged Facebook violated the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act by collecting and storing digital scans of their faces without prior notice or consent.“By any measure, the $650 million settlement in this biometric privacy class action is a landmark result,” U.S.
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