Facebook settles $US650m privacy lawsuit

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A judge approved the deal in a 2015 Illinois class-action involving nearly 1.6 million Facebook users.

that the cheques could be in the mail within two months unless the ruling is appealed.“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 shareholders,” Facebook said in a statement.

The lawsuit accused the social media giant of violating an Illinois privacy law by failing to get consent before using facial-recognition technology to scan photos uploaded by users to create and store faces digitally. The state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act allowed consumers to sue companies that didn’t get permission before harvesting data such as faces and fingerprints.Facebook has since changed its photo-tagging system.

 

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So Facebook pays off yet another government.......if your on Facebook cancel your membership now. The only way to beat this liar is to stop using him.

How about you stop banning everyone for absolutely nothing!

This parasite needs to be shut down for attacking free speech.

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How the hell did the World get friendly with this profit driven mogul. Time to unfriend the booking of profits on you family and friends. FB = FilchBook stealing your intimate data for profit. 🖕👎

Facebook should be banned. Zuckerberg should be arrested and made to eat nothing but wheels of cheese.

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