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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Mar 1, 2021

A federal judge in California on Friday approved a $650 million class action settlement to resolve claims that Facebook was using photo face-tagging and other biometric data without the permission of users. The ruling affects nearly 1.6 million Facebook users in Illinois who claimed the company's practices violated Illinois privacy laws. U.S. District Judge James Donato called the settlement one of the largest ever for a privacy violation. Each class member is expected to receive at least $345. Facebook has since changed its photo-tagging system, the Associated Press reports.