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		</div><p>A US federal judge has approved a 650 million dollar (£466 million) settlement of a privacy lawsuit against Facebook for allegedly using photo face-tagging and other biometric data without the permission of its users.</p>
<p>US district judge James Donato approved the deal in a class-action lawsuit that was filed in Illinois in 2015.</p>
<p>Nearly 1.6 million Facebook users in Illinois who submitted claims will be affected.</p>
<p>Judge Donato called it one of the largest settlements ever for a privacy violation.</p>
<p>“It will put at least 345 dollars (£247) into the hands of every class member interested in being compensated,” he wrote, calling it “a major win for consumers in the hotly-contested area of digital privacy.”</p>
<p>Jay Edelson, a Chicago attorney who filed the lawsuit, told the Chicago Tribune that cheques could be in the mail within two months unless the ruling is appealed.</p>
<p>Facebook, which is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, said in a statement, said: “We are pleased to have reached a settlement so we can move past this matter, which is in the best interest of our community and our shareholders.”</p>
<p>The lawsuit accused the social media giant of violating an Illinois privacy law by failing to get consent before using facial-recognition technology to scan photos uploaded by users to create and store faces digitally.</p>
<p>The state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act allowed consumers to sue companies that did not get permission before harvesting data such as faces and fingerprints.</p>
<p>The case eventually became a class-action lawsuit in California.</p>
<p>Facebook has since changed its photo-tagging system.</p>
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