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Instagram agrees to pay $68.5 million in Illinois biometric privacy settlement

Millions of Illinois Instagram users may be eligible for a cut of a new $68.5 million class-action biometric privacy settlement. The lawsuit alleges facial recognition technology used on the app until November 2021 violated Illinois’ biometric privacy law, which is considered the strictest in the nation. Any person who used Instagram while in Illinois between Aug. 10, 2015, and Aug. 16, 2023, ...
Instagram users may be eligible for a cut of a new $68.5 million class-action biometric privacy settlement.

Millions of Illinois Instagram users may be eligible for a cut of a new $68.5 million class-action biometric privacy settlement.

The lawsuit alleges facial recognition technology used on the app until November 2021 violated Illinois’

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