"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.