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Court preliminarily approves Meta's $650 million biometric settlement

A federal judge granted preliminary approval to the amended $650 million settlement over Facebook's collection and storage of Illinois users' facial templates without proper notice or consent. The court found the revised monetary and deletion remedies sufficient to proceed toward final approval.

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CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
AWAY FROM DOOM34confidence 95/100

Why it moved the index

Judicial approval advanced a large financial consequence and concrete deletion and opt-in controls from an executed agreement toward enforceability. Final approval remained pending, so this is a distinct but intermediate governance milestone.

Assessment history

  1. R1
    Away 34 · confidence 95

    New judicial milestone distinct from the July 2020 execution of the amended settlement agreement.

    11 Aug 2026

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