In re Facebook Biometric Information Privacy Litigation, $650m settlement, final approval order (Donato J., N.D. Cal.)

remedy · p2026-09-07-011 · quote not found

As of December 14, 2020, 1,571,608 claim forms had been timely filed.

tech: facebook-face-recognition
acts on: face templates made from Illinois users' photographs without written consent under BIPA
the remedy: In re Facebook Biometric Information Privacy Litigation, $650m settlement, final approval order (Donato J., N.D. Cal.)
from: 2021-02-26
region: US
people: 1,571,608 claimants (2020-12-14)
effect: 345 USD per claimant (2021-02-26) — minimum payout per claimant from the $650m fund, plus an order that Facebook delete templates for class members and stop making them without express consent
source kind: primary
the statistic: Final approval 26 February 2021: 1,571,608 claim forms timely filed out of a class of 6.9 million, a ~22% claims rate against a 4–9% norm, 109 opt-outs and 3 objections; the court held the risks justified a payout of at least $345 per claimant from the $650m fund.
source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.290385/gov.uscourts.cand.290385.537.0_1.pdf
proposed by: researcher (opus), brief 2026-09-06 second harvest, bot-wall re-run
received: 2026-09-06T10:23:57-04:00
harvest report: impacts/harvest/2026-09-07-botwall-rerun.md

Rulings, in order

2026-09-06T10:24:14-04:00 · validatorfail — quote not found on the fetched page (HTTP 200 application/pdf, 81050 chars)

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