Thursday, January 30, 2020

Facebook pays $550m settlement for breaking Illinois data protection law; The Guardian, January 30, 2020

Alex Hern, The Guardian; Facebook pays $550m settlement for breaking Illinois data protection law

"Facebook has settled a lawsuit over facial recognition technology, agreeing to pay $550m (£419m) over accusations it had broken an Illinois state law regulating the use of biometric details...

It is one of the largest payouts for a privacy breach in US history, a marker of the strength of Illinois’s nation-leading privacy laws. The New York Times, which first reported the settlement, noted that the sum “dwarfed” the $380m penalty the credit bureau Equifax agreed to pay over a much larger customer data breach in 2017."

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