Facebook Faces Lawsuit Over Illegally Harvesting Instagram Users’ Biometric Data

Public on: 14-Aug-2020 Views 1480

Facebook Faces Lawsuit Over Illegally Harvesting Instagram Users’ Biometric Data

Facebook Inc. is once again in troubled waters over allegations of illegally harvesting biometric data of over 100 million Instagram users.

In the lawsuit, filed on Monday in state court in Redwood City, California, the tech giant is accused of profiting from the biometric data of more than 100 million Instagram users, without their knowledge or consent.

“If we introduce face-recognition technology to your Instagram experience, we will let you know first, and you will have control over whether we use this technology for you,” states Instagram’s online data policy on face recognition.

But as per the lawsuit, it was earlier this year that Facebook informed the Instagram users that it was collecting their biometric data.

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