Facebook Users' Biometric Privacy Suit Will Go Forward

By Bonnie Eslinger ( May 14, 2018, 9:12 PM EDT) -- A California federal judge Monday ruled that a certified class action on behalf of Illinois Facebook users alleging that the social media giant unlawfully collects biometric data from the tagging of their photos "will go forward," in one of the first major tests of the scope of the Midwestern state's Biometric Information Privacy Act....

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