Facebook loses first round in suit over storing biometric data

The case was filed by some Illinois residents under Illinois law, but the parties agreed to transfer the case to the California court, the court order showed. (Reuters) Facebook Inc lost the first round in a court fight against some of its users who sued the social networking company, alleging it “unlawfully” collected and stored users’ biometric data derived from their faces in photographs.
The judge presiding over the case in a California federal court on Thursday turned dow