Jan. 9, 2026
Judge flags mass fraud concerns in YouTube biometric data settlement
A San Francisco federal judge raised concerns about widespread fraudulent claims in a YouTube biometric data settlement, questioning whether legitimate class members were excluded after administrators rejected hundreds of thousands of submissions.
A federal judge in San Francisco suggested Thursday that federal authorities should look into more than 300,000 fraudulent claims to participate in a settlement with YouTube stemming from allegations the video platform took users' biometric data.
In a hearing in front of U.S. District Judge James Donato, plaintiffs' attorneys from Milberg LLC and Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP said they received over 15 times more claims than members of the entire class.
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