SAN FRANCISCO (dpa-AFX) – Facebook pays $ 650 million to US plaintiffs in a dispute over the use of facial recognition technology after years of legal proceedings. A judge in California over the weekend approved the agreement that had been lashed down last year. There is at least $ 345 per plaintiff. The three Facebook users who initiated the class action will each receive $ 5,000.
The process, which has been running since 2015, is about the function in which Facebook suggests tagging friends shown in photos with names. Plaintiffs argued that it was against a facial recognition law in the state of Illinois not to obtain prior consent from those affected. In the meantime, Facebook has changed the procedure worldwide and only asks for permission./so/DP/eas
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