A federal judge indicated that a $110 million fee request is reasonable for attorneys who negotiated a $650 million settlement for Facebook users, who alleged that the social media giant’s facial recognition tool violated privacy laws.

In a hearing over the final approval of the deal, U.S. District Judge James Donato of the Northern District of California, whose critique of the original $550 million settlement motivated Facebook to kick in another $100 million, said that the plaintiffs attorneys request for 16.9% of the total settlement amount made sense.

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