For the second time this month, Facebook has been hit with a privacy lawsuit in Illinois over its facial-recognition technology, International Business Times reports. The lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District Court, claims the technology raises “serious privacy concerns” and violates a state law that prohibits companies from collecting certain types of biometric data without consent, the report states. The plaintiff, Adam Pezen, a Chicago resident, says the technology has allowed Facebook to amass a large-scale database of sensitive and personal data with a “large potential of misuse.” A Facebook spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment, the report states.
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