A federal judge in California has approved a $650 million settlement in 2015 a class-action lawsuit against Facebook over its use of photo face-tagging.
U.S. District Judge James Donato called the settlement a “landmark result” in a court filing on Friday, and said “it will put at least $345 into the hands of every class member interested in being compensated.”
“Overall, the settlement is a major win for consumers in the hotly contested area of digital privacy,” Donato wrote.
The case centered around Facebook’s “tag suggestions” program, which identifies people’s faces in photographs uploaded to the platform for user tagging.
Read more at The Hill.
{Matzav.com}
