Facebook has agreed to pay $550 million to settle claims in Illinois that the company violated local laws on facial recognition technologies.

Axar.az reports citing Zdnet that The results of the lawsuit were made public on Wednesday and have been described as the "largest cash settlement ever resolving a privacy-related lawsuit."

Launched by law firms Edelson, Robbins Geller, and Labaton Sucharow close to five years ago on behalf of Facebook users in Illinois, the lawyers argued that the social network's "Tag Suggestions" feature violated the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA).