Paidclass action · BIPA
Facebook's $650M BIPA facial-recognition settlement
$650M
Illinois State Court
US (Illinois) · 2021
Status: Paid
What happened
A class-action settlement resolved claims that Facebook's tag-suggestion faceprinting violated Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act. Roughly 1.6 million Illinois users received payouts.
How it affected users
About 1.6 million people were compensated for non-consensual biometric collection.
Status timeline
Feb 26, 2021
Penalty announced.
Sources
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Cite this entry
Deepak Gupta, "Facebook's $650M BIPA facial-recognition settlement," Tech Fines Directory, guptadeepak.com, 2021-02-26. https://guptadeepak.com/tech-fines/violation/meta-us-illinois-bipa-2021/