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…”