Google to Pay Illinois Users About $95 In Biometric Privacy Settlement

FILE – A Google sign on the is shown on the company campus in Mountain View, Calif., on Sept. 24, 2019. A former Google employee has sued the tech giant saying it engages in a “pattern and practice” of racial discrimination against its Black workers, steering them into lower-level and lower-paid jobs and subjecting them to a hostile work environment if they speak out. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Without admitting wrongdoing, Google plans to pay around $95 each to Illinoisans who filed to be part of a class action settlement over violations of the state’s Biometric Privacy Information Act. The Chicago Tribune reports more than 687,000 current and former Illinois residents will get the payment from the $100 million settlement. Google was hit with a BIPA charge for using facial recognition to tag photos without explicit consent.

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