Checks for $397 are hitting Illinois bank accounts after Facebook agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging that the company violated the rights of state residents by collecting and storing digital scans of their faces without permission.
The benefits of internet privacy laws can sometimes be hard to grasp: With the right regulations, users can sometimes have a vague reassurance that advertisers or the government can’t snoop as easily on their personal information.
The money is headed only to Illinois because of the state’s pioneering Biometric Information Privacy Act, an unusual law passed in 2008 that allows consumers in the state to sue companies for privacy violations involving fingerprints, retina scans, facial geometry and similar data. The state has generally been regarded as among the most aggressive places in the world in terms of regulations on tech.
It’s the largest settlement ever under the Illinois law, and the size of Facebook’s payment has other states,, which collected faceprints from online profiles and sold them to customers including police departments.
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