Facebook Inc bowed to a US judge’s concerns and proposed increasing its settlement offer to US$650mil (RM2.77bil) to resolve claims by users that the company illegally gathered biometric data through a photo-tagging tool.
A US federal judge had voiced scepticism about whether US$550mil (RM2.34bil) was enough to compensate millions of Illinois users on the social network who are covered by the class-action privacy case.
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