For years Facebook has been  creating and storing “face templates” of users

24 04 2022

Chicago Tribune

Illinois Facebook users: Your $397 privacy settlement check should be in the mail beginning May 9

“The settlement class included about 7 million Facebook users in Illinois for whom the social network created and stored a face template after June 7, 2011. To qualify, Facebook users had to live in the state for at least six months over the previous nine years. More than one in five eligible Illinois Facebook users filed a claim by the November 2020 deadline.”

” …use of facial tagging features without consent was not allowed under Illinois privacy law…”

 

 


 


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27 04 2022
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‘It’s like pouring ink into a lake… it flows everywhere’: Facebook doesn’t know where users’ data goes due to its ‘open border’ system that could see it fail ‘tsunami’ of crackdowns by privacy regulators, leaked document reveals
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10755667/Facebook-doesnt-know-users-data-goes-open-border-leaked-document-shows.html

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