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by admn2 1154 days ago
There was one settlement in Illinois, I think it was Facebook as well, where each person who filled it out got $395.
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I believe that was the biometric data lawsuit? If so, I was a member of that settlement and while the initial promise was as high as $395 (that’s what made the news), the actual checks people got were much smaller - I just found a picture of mine - $30.61
There were two checks the first one was $397 and then I think they had some left over so everyone that got the first one also got $30.61

edit: citation- https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-facebook-priv...

There have been at least two separate Facebook settlements (so far). The most recent one was indeed $30.61. The one from a year or two ago was (edit) $397, as another poster said.
Yeah, that was Facebook. That was $650 million for a single state though.