Ninth Circuit Certifies Privacy Class Action Against Facebook’s Photo Tag Suggestion Tool - Pearl Cohen
Article by Dotan Hammer A panel of the U.S. federal Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit unanimously rejected Facebook’s attempt to dismiss a privacy class-action alleging that it violated the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) by not securing user consent before recording users’ facial biometrics. The lawsuit revolves around Facebook’s Tag Suggestion feature, […]
1 Sep 2019 ... With Tag Suggestions, Facebook uses facial-recognition technology to analyze whether the user's Facebook friends are in photos uploaded by ...