Facebook sweetens biometric privacy accord to US$650mil

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. — Dreamstime/TNS

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.