Analyzing BIPA’s newest class action trend: Targeting the use of voice-powered technologies
By David J. Oberly, attorney at Blank Rome, LLP. For the better part of 2020, class action lawsuits filed under the…
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Businesses are closely watching four biometric privacy cases that could knock the wind from BIPA
Will employers get their first win against Illinois’ landmark biometrics law? The second half of the year is expected to…
Online proctor faces third biometric privacy suit, as BIPA arbitration rules considered
Another lawsuit has been filed over remote proctoring software with biometric features, as a pair of Illinois residents filed suit…
How to avoid becoming the next major BIPA class action target when using facial recognition for security and surveillance
This is a guest post by David Oberly, an associate at Blank Rome Swift, rapid advances have fueled a proliferation…
U.S. Congressmen push a bipartisan digital ID package
Days after a U.S. Labor Department administrator told ID tech executives that Washington is losing billions of dollars to online…
Clearview AI seeks biometric privacy claim consolidation, new BIPA cases brought and defenses considered
Clearview AI is asking to have 11 biometric privacy class action suits combined with each other, and another suit by the…
Impact of Facebook $650 million Patel BIPA settlement
This is a guest post by David Oberly, an associate at Blank Rome and biometric privacy expert. The original $550…
Bipartisan push for a national patient digital ID soldiers on
A U.S. Representative is trying again to break a circular illogic that prevents federal money from funding a national patient…
Unclear if biometric privacy law applies to algorithm training, though BIPA decisions clarify scope
Biometric privacy laws may apply only to processes in which individuals are identified, Theodore F. Claypoole of Womble Bond Dickenson…
Facial biometrics training dataset leads to BIPA lawsuits against Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft
Despite being conceived of as a way to make biometric facial recognition more equitable, IBM’s Diversity in Faces is continuing…
