A U.S. federal judge has given final approval to Facebook’s $650 million payment to settle a privacy dispute between the California group and 1.6 million users in the U.S. state of Illinois.
The decision was issued on Friday, according to documents seen by AFP on Sunday.
Chicago attorney Jay Edelson sued Facebook in 2015, alleging the social network illegally collected biometric data to identify faces in violation of a 2008 Illinois privacy law.
At the end of January 2020, Facebook agreed to pay $550 million after it failed to get the lawsuit – filed as a class action in 2018 – dismissed.
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