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Snap reportedly agrees to pay $35 Million over illegal user data collection in the US

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Snap, the parent company of photo-sharing platform Snapchat, has reached a $35 million settlement with the state of Illinois in the US in a class-action lawsuit over illegal user data collection. The lawsuit alleged that Snapchat's filters and lenses violated the state's Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). The company stored "biometric data without users' consent," reports Chicago Tribune.