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On May 7, Beijing time, according to foreign media reports, the United States judge of the Northern District of California Court ruling reversed before Facebook made motions. Although the ruling still many questions unanswered about the biometric technology, but users on the Facebook legal proceedings a hit product cleared. The lawsuit said the Facebook Photo tagging system without the user's explicit consent to build "face patterns" (Faceprint, where people face geometry rendering), thus violating users ' privacy.

These "face patterns" is usually used to identify the user, and then advise them to upload the picture label. According to the lawsuit, the practice is illegal in Illinois the biometric information Privacy Act (Biometric Information Privacy Act).

The Act prohibits companies without the user's explicit consent cases, including fingerprint or "face marks", the biometric data. Georgetown University privacy and technology centre awaluo·beiduoya (Alvaro Bedoya) have said before, "If you opened a bar, the law does not prohibit of you take my beer, but will ban your extracted DNA. ”

Facebook, in its policy on the data (Data Policy) disclose the existence of photo tagging system, users can opt out of this feature, but it is unclear whether these initiatives meet the legal definition of agreed. Facebook spokesman earlier said in a statement: "this lawsuit without merit and we will vigorously defend himself. ”

Today's ruling focused on a focus issue, namely whether Illinois law applies to Facebook, which is one of the main legal obstacle for plaintiffs. Facebook's terms of service, wrote that the company subject only to the laws of California and the federal laws of and have been based on this position of trying to push the courts to withdraw the lawsuit. But today, the judge of the Northern District of California Court ruling, said Facebook's terms of service are not enough to make Illinois the biometric information Privacy Act is invalid. Therefore, according to this law, plaintiff's argument is legitimate and effective, can proceed with a lawsuit.

If the plaintiffs in the lawsuit had the last laugh, then this will have significant impact on Facebook and the entire technology industry. Facebook Photo tagging system is one of the company's core product, Twitter and rivals such as Google Photos also have launched their own photo tagging system. In March, Google has faced similar lawsuits, accused Google Photos photo tagging system in violation of the Illinois biometric information provisions of the Privacy Act.

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北京时间5月7日消息，据国外媒体报道，美国加州北区法院法官今天做出裁决，推翻了Facebook之前提出的一项动议。虽然这一裁决仍然令诸多有关生物识别技术的问题没有得到解答，但却为用户对Facebook一款热门产品提起的法律诉讼扫清了障碍。这起诉讼称，Facebook照片标签系统未经用户明确同意生成“脸纹”（faceprint，即一个人面部的几何呈现），因此侵犯了用户隐私权。

这些“脸纹”通常被用于识别用户身份，然后建议他们给上传的照片做标签。根据诉讼请求，这种做法违反了伊利诺伊州的《生物识别信息隐私法》（Biometric Information Privacy Act）。

该法案禁止企业在未经用户明确同意的情况下，收集包括指纹或“脸纹”在内的生物识别数据。乔治城大学隐私与科技中心的阿瓦罗·贝多亚（Alvaro Bedoya）之前就曾指出，“如果你开了一个酒吧，法律不会禁止你拿走我用过的啤酒杯，但会禁止你提取上面的DNA。”

Facebook在其《数据政策》（Data Policy）中披露了照片标签系统的存在，用户可以选择退出这种功能，但目前还不清楚这些举措是否符合法律对同意的定义。Facebook发言人早前在一份声明中称：“这项诉讼缺乏法律依据，我们会积极地替自己辩护。”

今天的裁决主要围绕一个焦点问题展开，即伊利诺伊州的法律是否适用于Facebook，这也是原告们面临的主要法律障碍之一。Facebook的《服务条款》写道，该公司仅受加州法律和联邦法律的制约，并且之前一直基于这种立场试图令法院撤销这一诉讼。但今天，加州北区法院法官做出裁决，称Facebook的《服务条款》并不足以让伊利诺伊州《生物识别信息隐私法》无效。因此，根据这一法律，原告的理由是正当且有效的，可以继续推进这一诉讼。

如果原告在这起诉讼中笑到最后，那么这将给Facebook乃至整个科技行业带来重大影响。Facebook的照片标签系统是该公司核心产品之一，Twitter和Google Photos等竞争对手也都推出了自家的照片标签系统。今年3月份，谷歌也曾遭遇过类似诉讼，被指控Google Photos中的照片标签系统违反了伊利诺伊州《生物识别信息隐私法》的规定。