fb: facial recognition lawsuit allowed to proceed

[tangor]

Facebook is facing exposure to billions of dollars in potential damages as a federal appeals court on Thursday rejected Facebook’s arguments to halt a class action lawsuit claiming it illegally collected and stored the biometric data of millions of users.

[techcrunch.com...]

The action contains upwards of 7m plaintiffs ... so any judgement (should it happen) will not be chump change.

[Dimitri]

7 million, at $3 , this is $21 millions...

[tangor]

Heh heh! You left out the Lawyers' Cut. :)