Facebook has been accused of violating the privacy of its users by collecting their facial data.
According to a class-action lawsuit filed last week, the data-collection programme helped Facebook create “the largest privately held stash of biometric face-recognition data in the world,” Courthouse News Service reports.
The lawsuit alleges that this facial-recognition program violates the privacy of its users, citing an Illinois law called the Illinois Biometrics Information Privacy Acts, which requires companies to get written content from a user if it is collecting biometric data. Further, according to the statute, the company must state the purpose and length of its data-collection program.
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