4 ms·
Facebook was forced to pay $650 million in 2021 for violating Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act[1]. That's not necessarily grounds for a federal regul
by qchris 5y ago
Facebook was forced to pay $650 million in 2021 for violating Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act[1]. That's not necessarily grounds for a federal regulatory action, but if something like this happens in the future the does violate federal law (in the article, this was caused by not paying sufficient attention to COPPA), it could mean Facebook has to delete/re-do quite a bit of work in addition to purely monetary damages.
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/01/facebook-illinois-class-action-bipa/ https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/01/facebook-illinois-class-ac...
- Arainach 5y agoThat's a great example. I can say that for a very long time (at least 5 years, probably more but I wasn't there to know for sure) Google has had explicit policies and training for all employees about not sharing data across projects without explicit user consent for this and many other reasons.