Facebook Sweetens Biometric Privacy Accord to $650 Million
- Company offers extra $100 million to address judge’s concerns
- Judge calls for robust outreach to notify users of settlement
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Facebook Inc. bowed to a judge’s concerns and proposed increasing its settlement offer to $650 million to resolve claims by users that the company illegally gathered biometric data through a photo-tagging tool.
A federal judge had voiced skepticism about whether $550 million was enough to compensate millions of Illinois users on the social network who are covered by the class-action privacy case.