Illinois Facebook users to receive second payment in biometric privacy lawsuit settlement

Illinois residents who cashed checks they obtained final 12 months as a part of a $650 million biometric privateness lawsuit settlement involving Fb ought to count on one other fee this month.

A second verify of simply over $30 was issued on the finish of February to those that cashed their preliminary settlement funds of $397, in response to lawyer Jay Edelson, who filed the lawsuit in opposition to Fb in 2015.

The second fee will come from round $43 million remaining within the settlement fund after the primary spherical of funds went out to greater than 1 million folks final Could, Edelson stated.

“Generally there’s leftover cash. On this case, not all people cashed their checks, so as a result of there’s leftover cash there’s a second distribution,” Edelson stated. After authorized bills, the settlement fund totaled $550 million.

Almost 1.4 million Fb customers filed legitimate claims within the class-action lawsuit, which alleged that Fb violated Illinois privateness laws with a characteristic that prompt to customers different folks to tag of their pictures.

A federal decide in California accredited the settlement in 2020. The deadline to file a declare and get a verify was in November of that 12 months.