Facebook sent out $397 checks this year to those who joined a class action lawsuit because of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, an unusual law passed in 2008 that allows consumers in the state to sue companies for privacy violations involving fingerprints, retina scans, facial geometry and similar data. Now, Google has to pay out $100,000,000 for the same reason. If you appeared in a photo on Google between May 1, 2015 – April 25, 2022 and lived in Illinois during that time, click HERE.