The lawsuit alleges that Facebook broke Illinois' strict biometric privacy law that allows people to sue companies that fail to get consent before harvesting consumers' data, including through facial and fingerprint scanning. — Reuters
CHICAGO: Adam Pezen, Carlo Licata and Nimesh Patel are among millions of people who have been tagged in Facebook photos at some point in the past decade, sometimes at the suggestion of an automated tagging feature powered by facial recognition technology.
It was their Illinois addresses, though, that put the trio's names atop a lawsuit that Facebook recently agreed to settle for US$550mil (RM2.28bil), which could lead to payouts of a couple hundred dollars to several million Illinois users of the social networking site.
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