A US court has approved a settlement that the online network uses to settle a class action lawsuit.
Because Facebook created and saved scans of their faces without users' permission, the online network now has to pay them $ 650 million (around 540 million euros), reports CNet.
A US court approved the settlement on Friday. Facebook thus settles a class action lawsuit brought in the US state of Illinois in 2015. According to the judge, it is one of the highest settlement sums in a data protection lawsuit in the United States.
Photo tagging
Specifically, the lawsuit related to the use of face recognition technology by Facebook in its photo tagging function. With the function, users can tag friends in photos that have been uploaded to Facebook. Facebook also made automatically generated suggestions without the consent of the user, for which scans of previously uploaded images were used to identify people.
Facebook originally hoped to get out of it cheaper and initially suggested a sum of $ 550 million. But this was not enough for the judge.
