Facebook class action lawsuit over facial recognition OK'd by judge

Facebook has been trying to get a lawsuit claiming its facial recognition tech violates an Illinois privacy act dismissed for years. Well, that's not going to happen anytime soon, because San Francisco federal judge James Donato -- the same judge who denied Facebook's motion to dismiss in 2016 -- has just given the case the go-ahead to proceed as a class action lawsuit. "Plaintiffs' claims are sufficiently cohesive to allow for a fair and efficient resolution on a class basis," he wrote in his ruling. Judge Donato didn't agree with Facebook's argument that the law doesn't apply to it, because its servers aren't located in the state. He said the servers' geographic locations aren't "a dispositive factor" in the case.