https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200201/15023543840/facebook-pays-550-million-settlement-illinois-facial-recognition-lawsuit-which-could-pose-problems-clearview.shtml

Late last week, legally and ethically-dubious facial recognition tech developer Clearview was sued for violating an Illinois law making certain collection and storage of biometric information illegal. I was very dismissive of the lawsuit, stating that scraping of publicly-posted photos couldn't possibly create an actionable violation of privacy.

My assessment may be wrong. A recent settlement by Facebook in a lawsuit alleging violations of this law suggests the proposed class action against Clearview might actually go somewhere, even if Clearview is an outside party scraping (possibly illegal) photo collections from other sites.