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Enforcement · Class-action lawsuit

Snap pays $35M to settle BIPA suit over Snapchat Lens face-tracking

Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) Illinois

Snap Inc. agreed to pay $35 million to settle an Illinois class action alleging its Snapchat Lens and filter features collected and stored users' facial geometry without the consent required under the state's Biometric Information Privacy Act. Roughly 4 million Illinois users who used Snapchat's AR filters since November 2015 qualified as class members; Snap denied any wrongdoing as part of the settlement.

Why it matters A face filter most people think of as a toy was, legally speaking, biometric data collection, and expensive to get wrong.
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In re Snap Inc. Biometric Information Privacy Litigation (settlement administrator)
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Published by Editorial on Sep 23, 2026. Not independently re-checked against the primary source — read it via the link above.

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