Facebook has been charged with the case of privacy issue of collecting biometric images from photo in Illinois with the fine of billion dollar money. This could be an important issue again while facing US congress in future.
The giant company Facebook will be making payouts to nearly about a quarter of the 6 million Illinois residents who are eligible for the biggest consumer privacy settlement in U.S. history.
Based on a tally filed in court after Monday’s claims deadline, some 1.57 million people will probably pocket more than $300 each — after about a third of the $650 million settlement fund is set aside for their attorneys and administrative costs — from a lawsuit in which the social network was accused of collecting biometric images from its photo-tagging feature without consent.
In Facebook’s case, the judge was initially skeptical if a settlement of less than $1 billion was fair, considering that if users had taken the company to trial they could have sought damages of as much as $5,000 for each violation of the Illinois Biometric Privacy Information Act.
To get U.S. District Judge James Donato on board, the company and the lawyers for consumers added an extra $100 million to what was originally a $550 million accord, and they promised an extra-aggressive outreach effort, which included pinging Facebook users directly through their accounts to alert them to the cash jackpot. Final approval of the deal is scheduled for early in 2021.
Facebook privacy has been serious issue for the many cases. American congress has moniter the all the giant companies like google ,twitter, apple and facebook regarding the data track, privacy management and data breach issue. All the CEO of respective companies have already been facing the us congress many times.
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