VTO tool liability defense rejection underscores uncertainty and risk in BIPA litigation
By David J. Oberly, Biometric Privacy & Data Privacy Attorney For almost four years now, online retailers that utilize virtual…
Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA)
The Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) requires organizations to acquire consent prior to collecting a person’s biometric data for commercial purposes.
Data boom in automotive industry elicits lawsuits, prototypes, grousing
Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) strikes again, with a newly proposed class action lawsuit alleging that fleet management software…
Steak ‘n Shake face pay kiosks from PopID draw BIPA class action
Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) has another notch in its litigation belt, this time in the form of a…
Illinois heads off a cruel precedent for biometric data privacy damages
Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) has been officially amended, with Governor J.B. Pritzker signing the changes into law on…
Samsung gets one biometric data privacy case back into court, another dismissed
Samsung has defeated a ruling that would have compelled it to go through mass arbitration over allegations of biometric data…
Google settles over kids biometric data collection in schools
Google and the parents of an Illinois girl who sued (H.K. et al. v. Google LLC) the tech giant in…
Scope and contours of BIPA biometric ‘identifiers’ and ‘information’
By David J. Oberly, Biometric Privacy & Data Privacy Attorney One of the most significant unsettled issues in Illinois Biometric…
BIPA suit against X Corp. killed as judge hashes out ‘biometric identifiers’
The question of whether photos collected by social media sites constitute biometric data has another answer, this one from an…
Rights groups urge Clearview plaintiffs to opt out of settlement
Activist groups in California are urging members of a class action against Clearview AI to reject the settlement recently agreed…
Vermont governor rejects privacy law that would be among strongest in US
The governor of Vermont says the state’s proposed data protection law is too risky, and has returned H.121, “An act…
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