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\tNearly 1.6 million Facebook users in the US state of Illinois are to receive a payment from the tech giant, after a judge approved a $650 million offer from the company to settle a class action lawsuit claiming it violated user privacy rights.<\/p>\n

In a ruling, the judge stated the sum was \u201cone the largest settlements ever for a privacy violation\u201d and would \u201cput at least $345 into the hands\u201d of every class action participant, “a major win for consumers in the hotly contested area of digital privacy”.<\/p>\n

The judge added the settlement is “all the more valuable because Facebook and other big tech companies continue to fight the proposition that a statutory privacy violation is a genuine harm”.<\/p>\n

It all began in 2015, when Facebook was accused of storing users’ biometric data for a facial recognition-based photo-tagging feature \u201cwithout prior notice or consent\u201d, a violation of the state’s law.<\/p>\n

Facebook\u2019s original settlement offer of $550 million [1] was rejected by the court as insufficient in June 2020, forcing the social media giant to up its proposal.<\/p>\n

The judge ordered Facebook to make payments as soon as possible, a process the\u00a0Chicago Tribune reported could begin within two months.<\/p>\n

[1] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/top-three\/facebook-growth-continues-despite-rising-costs<\/p>\n\n

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