Facebook Inc. failed again to get out of a lawsuit alleging its photo scanning technology flouts users’ privacy rights. “When an online service simply disregards the Illinois procedures, as Facebook is alleged to have done, the right of the individual to maintain her biometric privacy vanishes into thin air,” Donato wrote in Monday’s ruling. Facebook says users can’t stop it from using biometric data. The Facebook case is In re Facebook Biometric Information Privacy Litigation, 15-cv-03747, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California (San Francisco). The Google cases are Rivera v. Google, 16-cv-02714, and Weiss v. Google, 16-cv-02870, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois (Chicago).

Source: Hindustan Times February 27, 2018 07:41 UTC