TikTok was accused of illegally recording facial scans of users and disclosing private data to third parties. The video app faced potential damages under an Illinois biometric privacy law of as much as US$5,000 (RM20,580) for each time an online facial scan was collected without a consumer’s consent. — AFP Relaxnews
A proposal to settle privacy lawsuits with the video app TikTok might give users enough compensation to buy a cup of coffee – and that’s just not good enough, a lawyer representing an objector to the accord told a judge.
Those supporting the US$92mil (RM378.67mil) settlement justify it by referring to deals reached more than a decade ago, the lawyer, Ryan Andrews, said at a hearing on Monday. Andrews is a partner at Edelson PC, which represented plaintiffs in a class-action biometric privacy suit that cost Facebook US$650mil (RM2.67bil) and saw 22% of class members, or almost 1.6 million Facebook users, file compensation claims.
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