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Facebook faces yet another monstrous privacy headache in Illinois

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Geekz Snow
Facebook faces yet another monstrous privacy headache in Illinois

With the ink still wet on a $5 billion FTC fine, the UK Government questioning discrepancies in evidence presented to Parliamentary Committees and a Netflix documentary reopening the wounds of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the last thing needed was another headache.

In a 3-0 ruling, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth District has ruled against Facebook, allowing for a class-action lawsuit following the implementation of facial-recognition technologies without consultation or the creation of public policy.

“Because a violation of the Illinois statute injures an individual’s concrete right to privacy, we reject Facebook’s claim that the plaintiffs have failed to allege a concrete injury-in-fact for purposes of Article III standing.

However, the appeals court has dismissed this opinion.

The law in question was enacted in 2008, with the intention of protecting consumer privacy.

As biometric data can be seen as unique as a social security number, legislators feared the risk of identity theft, as well as the numerous unknowns as to how this technology could be implemented in the future.

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