3500 crore dollar lawsuit filed against facebook

October 21, 2019October 21, 2019

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San Francisco: A US court rejected a Facebook petition that filed a $ 3,500 million class-action lawsuit against Illinois citizens for alleged misuse of facial recognition data.

According to TechCrunch’s Friday report, a three-judge panel of nine circuit judges in San Francisco rejected Facebook’s petition.

Now the case will be heard only when the Supreme Court intervenes. The report said that the lawsuit alleges that Illinois citizens did not allow facial recognition related scans of their photos uploaded, nor were they informed that mapping began in 2011 How long the data will be safe.

Facebook will have to pay a fine of 1000 to 5000 dollars per person according to 70 lakh people, in this case, the fine imposed on it will be up to 3500 million dollars.

In 2011, Facebook started using facial recognition related to scan technology, in which Facebook users are asked whether they know the people who have been tagged in the photo uploaded by them.

The judges said that Scanning technology related to facial recognition is an attack on people’s privacy.”

At the same time, according to court papers, Facebook’s facial recognition technology violates the Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) of Illinois.

At the same time, Facebook has said that “Facebook has always told people about the use of face recognition technology and they have also been told to control it. At the moment we are reviewing the options we have And will keep on defending himself.