Facebook Will Give 4783 Crores Compensation – Data Theft: Facebook Will Compensate 4,783 Crore

Facebook will give a compensation of Rs 4,783 crore to steal people’s biometric data and store it on their servers to identify faces. The company had the facility of tagging photos based on this data through facial recognition technology.

15,71,608 users had sued till December, considering it a violation of privacy. Compensation was reached during the mass hearing. The judge of the federal court of San Francisco agreed to the settlement on Friday. The agency

Facebook was found guilty of violating Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act. According to Judge Donato, three people objected to the agreement, but a large number of support is being agreed.

This is the biggest compensation for privacy violation, the biggest win for Facebook users. Each user who claims will get compensation of $ 345 i.e. about 25,390 rupees.

These lawsuits against Facebook began in 2015. Slowly the litigants grew. By 2020, Facebook had agreed to pay $ 4,047 million, but the amount was increased after the judge’s intervention.

Facebook will keep face recognition option off
All parties are now satisfied with the changes made in their policy by Facebook. These changes will now turn off the face recognition option for users who have not allowed biometric scans on their photos.

Will delete data stored without permission of the users involved in the lawsuit. Those who are not active on Facebook for three years, their data will also have to be deleted.

Facebook will give a compensation of Rs 4,783 crore to steal people’s biometric data and store it on their servers to identify faces. The company had the facility of tagging photos based on this data through facial recognition technology.

15,71,608 users had sued till December, considering it a violation of privacy. Compensation was reached during the mass hearing. The judge of the federal court of San Francisco agreed to the settlement on Friday. The agency

Facebook was found guilty of violating Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act. According to Judge Donato, three people objected to the agreement, but a large number of support is being agreed.

This is the biggest compensation for privacy violation, the biggest win for Facebook users. Each user who claims will get compensation of $ 345 i.e. about 25,390 rupees.

These lawsuits against Facebook began in 2015. Slowly the litigants grew. By 2020, Facebook had agreed to pay $ 4,047 million, but the amount was increased after the judge’s intervention.

Facebook will keep face recognition option off

All parties are now satisfied with the changes made in their policy by Facebook. These changes will now turn off the face recognition option for users who have not allowed biometric scans on their photos.

Will delete data stored without permission of the users involved in the lawsuit. Those who are not active on Facebook for three years, their data will also have to be deleted.