Check your email -- or your bank account -- you may be one of more than 680,000 Illinois residents set to receive a payment as part of a multi-million dollar class-action settlement involving Google.
Claimants who have received payments via PayPal or Venmo report to NBC Chicago that they were notified of their settlements directly through those payment services. Google did not immediately respond to an inquiry from NBC Chicago regarding how class-action members are informed of payments made through digital MasterCards.
In the many months since, the number of claims submitted soared to 687,484, reducing the amount paid to each person. that resulted in many residents receiving checks worth nearly $400, claimed the company violated the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act by"collecting and storing biometric data of individuals who, while residing in Illinois, appeared in a photograph in the photograph sharing and storage service known as Google Photos, without proper notice and consent.
If a company is found to have violated Illinois law, citizens can collect civil penalties up to $5,000 per violation compounded by the number of people affected and days involved. Since BIPA is an Illinois law, it only applies to state residents.
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