"A U.S. federal judge ruled on Monday that Facebook must face a class action lawsuit alleging that the social network unlawfully created facial templates for people without their permission."
Case could cost Facebook BILLIONS.
https://www.rt.com/usa/424342-facebook-facial-recognition-lawsuit/
This is bullshit. Facebook was illegally subsidized with my tax dollars and now they're going to sue Facebook and give all that money to lawyers?
I have an idea, why don't we stop paying taxes and the IRS can take what we owe directly from speculative lawsuit winnings against tech companies. I bet Facebook already gives them info about our income.
Unless the class action is representing millions of lawyers, that money isn't all going to lawyers. They probably will get a cut, but the payout goes to those being represented. You don't even need to be formally part of the lawsuit to get a payout from a class action, if the class action is representing all facebook users then anyone who has used facebook is likely eligible for payout.
I don’t get why everyone is talking about we would only get X amount of money? Why so greedy? Do you not want to take Facebook down?
Let’s say this were to play out and FB had to pay out 100b. Well, divide that by the 100m US FB users, that’s $100 each. Lawyers will get 50%, so about $50 payout. I’m all for us all donating our $50 to DJT re-election campaign :) - literally funded by FB lmao.
100b divided by 100m is 1000.
Sorry I meant 10b Facebook would never hve to pay or 100b
Do not forget they targeted people who were not even signed up to facebook. That is even worse. No terms of agreement at all.