Unique Illinois privacy law leads to $550M Facebook deal

Unique Illinois privacy law leads to $550M Facebook deal

4 years ago
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https://apnews.com/d9a58a7e656023b4ebef612f71c8c1c5

CHICAGO (AP) — Adam Pezen, Carlo Licata and Nimesh Patel are among millions of people who have been tagged in Facebook photos at some point in the past decade, sometimes at the suggestion of an automated tagging feature powered by facial recognition technology.

It was their Illinois addresses, though, that put the trio's names atop a lawsuit that Facebook recently agreed to settle for $550 million, which could lead to payouts of a couple hundred dollars to several million Illinois users of the social networking site.