Facebook Judge Frowns on Bid to Toss Biometric Face Print Suit
- Company is fighting class action under Illinois privacy law
- Social network owner argues users haven’t shown they’re harmed
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Facebook Inc. faced a skeptical judge over its second request to get out of a lawsuit alleging its photo scanning technology flouts users’ privacy rights.
“The right to say no is a valuable commodity,” U.S. District Judge James Donato said Thursday during a hearing in San Francisco. The case concerns the “most personal aspects of your life: your face, your fingers, who you are to the world.”