Law firm adds more biometric privacy litigators to address uptick in Illinois BIPA lawsuits
Shook, Hardy & Bacon, a U.S. law firm with twelve offices in the United States and London, this week announced…
Commercial Applications
Biometrics are used in retail and customer-facing settings for point-of-sales services such as payments, access control in systems for purposes such as shoplifting prevention, and identification or characteristic analysis for personalization or customer insights. Access control systems are also increasingly used for automated commercial applications, such as hotel check-ins. Typically, these use palm vein, fingerprint, iris recognition, facial recognition.
Three new BIPA lawsuits over biometric time and attendance systems
Proposed class action lawsuits have been filed in Cook County Circuit Court against Enova Financial Holdings Inc., DaBecca Natural Foods…
Dueling Washington State facial recognition bills spark regulation debate
Microsoft is lobbying against a bill with bipartisan support in the Washington State legislature that would ban the use of…
Law firm rolls out BIPA sub-practice to focus on Illinois’ biometric privacy law claims
Lewis Brisbois has formed a new BIPA sub-practice within its Labor and Employment Practice that will focus on claims relating…
Biometric data protection bill introduced in Massachusetts
In late January four Massachusetts state senators introduced a bill that would require companies to refrain from collecting personal and…
Aviation company sued under BIPA for biometric collection procedure violations
A class action lawsuit has been filed in Cook County Circuit Court by a former employee of Swissport USA accusing…
Dismissed biometric privacy suit against Google appealed and filed in state court
A recently-dismissed lawsuit filed against Google under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) has been given new life by the…
Home DNA test company courts controversy with FBI partnership
Home gene testing company Family Tree DNA is working with the FBI and providing access to its genealogy database for…
Proposed NYC biometric data privacy law could lead to deluge of lawsuits
Legislators in New York City are expected to consider a bill this year which would amend municipal laws to include…
Biometric data collection regulation proposed in Arizona House
Another U.S. state is considering major new regulatory rules that would make it illegal for businesses to use biometric data…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
- Biometric Physical Access Control
- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection