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Likely related to biometrics laws. I know Illinois has restrictions on the collection of biometrics, not sure about Texas. Facebook in particular paid out a significant amount of money in a class action in Illinois, I know because I got a chunk of change from it.

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which you mean someone took a dime and carved off a piece of it, and then sent you a piece of paper with postage that cost more than the value of that chunk? yeah, we all got hosed by that one too i'd imagine

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/illinois-facebook-user...

> According to the Settlement Administrator, payments to class members between $200 to $400 started going in the mail May 9.

I got a $0.19 check from an iTunes settlement once, but this wasn't one of those cases.

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