Facebook offers $650 million to settle facial recognition software lawsuit

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This settlement comes on the heels of Facebook’s $5 billion settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC). That lawsuit arose from claims that Facebook let British consulting firm Cambridge Analytica harvest data from an estimated 87 million users.

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