Re: Why didn't they simply say...
@heyrick "Why didn't they simply say...You have to pay everybody a dollar for the inconvenience...and erase all copies of the images held and any ancillary data inferred from them."
Because the authors of the settlement filing are lawyers, the lawyers the filing said could ask to be awarded as much as 39.1% of the settlement fund in attorney fees.
Clearview AI were never going to agree to a settlement where they have to delete their database of images, no database to search no business. Now if there is no settlement then there is no big pay day for the lawyers.
But as we all know the only purpose of class actions is a big pay day for the lawyers. So it should come as no surprise that the only form of relief in the 'creative' settlement devised by the plaintiffs lawyers is a monetary fund from which the lawyers will eventually get a big pay day, leaving all other forms of relief* sought by the plaintiffs unaddressed.
'creative' settlement my arse, just another example of class action lawyers working in their own self interests instead of the best interests of their clients.
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*127. Plaintiff and Class Members seek injunctive relief: (a) barring Defendants from any further use of Plaintiff’s and Class Members’ biometric identifiers and information; (b) barring Defendants from continuing to collect, capture or otherwise obtain Plaintiff’s and Class Member’s biometric identifiers and information; and (c) requiring Defendants to delete and destroy Plaintiff’s and Class Members’ biometric identifiers and information.