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Facebook's $650 million settlement, approved in February 2021, is still the largest confirmed payout under Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act, according to Robbins Geller Rudman and Dowd LLP. See how it ranks against the 9 other largest confirmed BIPA settlements, which together total roughly $949 million.
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Plaintiffs filed 150 lawsuits under Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act in 2025, down 65% from 427 in 2024, per Duane Morris' Class Action Review 2026. See the year-by-year filing trend, why the drop happened, and the billion-dollar settlements still working through the courts.
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Texas's $1.4 billion settlement with Meta, announced in July 2024 by Attorney General Ken Paxton, is the largest privacy settlement any single state has ever obtained. See how the four states, and two cities, with dedicated biometric privacy laws compare heading into 2026.
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Only 1 of the 20 comprehensive US state privacy laws, California's CCPA, gives consumers any right to sue directly, and even that is limited to data breaches. See how every state's private right of action and cure period compares as of 2026.
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Only 3 of the 50 US states, Illinois, Texas, and Washington, have a dedicated biometric privacy statute in 2026, and just one of them requires the retention policy itself to be written down and made public. See how all 20 comprehensive state privacy laws now treat biometric data, per RecordingLaw's 2026 fifty-state comparison.
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