Amazon loses dismissal bid in BIPA case, could face many more plaintiffs
A 2019 biometric privacy lawsuit in the U.S. against Amazon has just gotten more significant. A U.S. district judge last…
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.
Key takeaways from recent BIPA biometric technology vendor decision
Despite the lack of a direct relationship with end users of their technology—making compliance obligations such as providing notice and…
Business group pitches BIPA reform while flow of new cases continues
A business advocacy group is calling for a landmark biometric privacy law in the United States to be amended to…
Don’t overlook US state law protecting collection of genetic data – legal insiders
A pair of news stories this month, one only tangentially related to personal privacy, again point out the stakes involved…
SIA says biometric data privacy claim against Meta ‘does not qualify’
The Security Industry Association has weighed in on a biometric privacy lawsuit that claims Meta broke the law with a…
BIPA anniversary marked with proposals for improvement, close examination
Fifteen years after its passage, the U.S. state of Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act only looks more threatening to non-governmental…
Does US privacy regulation trump a state’s biometrics law? Supreme Court to decide
The U.S. state of Illinois’ Supreme Court is hearing another biometric privacy case, this one brought by health care workers…
BIPA defendants take their fates out of courts; Samsung can’t avoid arbitration
For all its boilerplate bluster about winning the biometric privacy lawsuit it was defending against in the United States, face-scraper…
Some big names sweated a hot summer with biometric privacy court cases
It’s a brand-name roundup of biometric information privacy lawsuits today, with Clearview AI, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon battling in court…
A second US state debates letting residents sue for misuse of biometric identifiers
Little progress has been recorded for a bill in the U.S. state of Missouri that would protect biometric information from…
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