Facebook will have to face a massive lawsuit over facial recognition

Remember that Facebook feature that lets you tag friends in photos with the help of facial recognition? Well, it might be illegal for Facebook to do that -- at least that's what a lawsuit in Illinois alleges. And a US federal judge just ruled that Facebook has to face the class action. In a worst-case scenario for Facebook, the company would have to pay billions in damages for this new type of user privacy breach. US District Judge James Donato ruled on Monday in San Francisco federal court that...