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Facebook Users Can Sue Over Facial Recognition, Court Rules

A federal appeals court is allowing a group of users to sue Facebook on claims the social network collected their facial data without consent.

On Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rejected Facebook’s efforts to dismiss the ongoing class-action lawsuit, which could potentially require the company to pay billions in compensation.

The lawsuit dates back to 2015 when three Facebook users living in the state claimed the tech giant had violated the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, which requires companies to obtain consent when collecting their biometric information.

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