Facebook must face lawsuit over facial recognition technology, judge rules

Facebook has to face a class action lawsuit over claims that it was using facial recognition on people's photos without their permission. The decision brings yet more troubles to Facebook as it deals with a range of privacy and data abuse scandals. The problems have been mounting for weeks, ever since it became clear that the platform had been giving up users' data to developers without them necessarily knowing. That has led to a range of new scrutiny, including people realising that Facebook appears to be tracking their phone calls and who they message. Now, in another blow, US District Judge James Donato has given the go-ahead for a major lawsuit over the way the sites' facial recognition tools work.