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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.

 

Rebuffed on arbitration, Onfido calls it quits in BIPA lawsuit

Biometric ID verification provider Onfido is settling a suit brought by plaintiffs alleging that the company had illegally used their…

 

Biometric privacy cases churn on, but talk of legal reform gets louder

Amazon and beefery McDonald’s are separately involved in new class-action filings about their alleged violation of a U.S. state biometric…

 

CheckpointID and IDScan move BIPA case to US federal court to keep lid on damages

A putative biometric privacy class action in the U.S. state of Illinois involving ID verifiers CheckpointID and IDScan.net has been…

 

US biometric data privacy suit nets Jumio and crypto firm Binance

A U.S. federal judge has rejected two of three defendants’ motions to dismiss a biometric data privacy case. The three…

 

Have you heard? Voiceprint biometric suits are on the rise

By Jeffrey N. Rosenthal & Amanda M. Noonan, Blank Rome LLP Biometric technology, and the corresponding regulation thereof, has dramatically…

 

Pindrop exempted from biometric data privacy lawsuit

Several finer points of biometric data privacy regulations have been raised in different court proceedings, with one leading to claims…

 

Veriff settles BIPA claim for $4M; defendants reaching for victory strategies

Defendants in U.S. biometric privacy lawsuits will not like the analogy because of its implied inevitability, but the legal production…

 

Analyzing the impact of the BIPA claim accrual decision

By David J. Oberly, Biometric Privacy & Data Privacy Attorney On February 17, 2023, the Illinois Supreme Court definitively resolved…

 

US computer & comms group has problems with state’s biometric privacy bills

A U.S. electronics industry association is pushing hard against state legislation that would allow consumers to sue a business for…

 

Biometric data privacy lawsuits approach the absurd with Illinois ruling, Texas claims

White Castle could be forced to pay out $17 billion in damages to a plaintiff for biometric data privacy infringements…

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