{"id":687,"date":"2021-02-27T14:12:34","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T13:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/27\/judge-approves-650m-settlement-of-privacy-lawsuit-against-facebook\/"},"modified":"2021-02-27T14:12:34","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T13:12:34","slug":"judge-approves-650m-settlement-of-privacy-lawsuit-against-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/27\/judge-approves-650m-settlement-of-privacy-lawsuit-against-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge approves $650m settlement of privacy lawsuit against Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 1.6m Facebook users to receive at least $345 after network allegedly used face photo-tagging without permission<\/p>\n<p>A federal judge has approved a $650m settlement of a privacy lawsuit against Facebook for allegedly using photo face-tagging and other biometric data without the permission of its users.<\/p>\n<p>US district judge James Donato approved the deal in a class-action lawsuit that was filed in Illinois in 2015. Nearly 1.6 million Facebook users in Illinois who submitted claims will be affected.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/feb\/27\/facebook-illinois-privacy-lawsuit-settlement\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/f393a7c8b9573c380e123124390fa55f37c80f00\/0_192_5760_3456\/master\/5760.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=360b58e5def84ad83b75d8e523e7b7ec\" title=\"Judge approves $650m settlement of privacy lawsuit against Facebook\" \/>Nearly 1.6m Facebook users to receive at least $345 after network allegedly used face photo-tagging without permission<br \/>\nA federal judge has approved a $650m settlement of a privacy lawsuit against Facebook for allegedly using photo face-tagging and other biometric data without the permission of its users.<br \/>\nUS district judge James Donato approved the deal in a class-action lawsuit that was filed in Illinois in 2015. Nearly 1.6 million Facebook users in Illinois who submitted claims will be affected. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 1.6m Facebook users to receive at least $345 after network allegedly used face photo-tagging without permission A federal judge has approved a $650m settlement of a privacy lawsuit against Facebook for allegedly using photo face-tagging and other biometric data without the permission of its users. US district judge James Donato approved the deal in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/27\/judge-approves-650m-settlement-of-privacy-lawsuit-against-facebook\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Judge approves $650m settlement of privacy lawsuit against Facebook<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}