Texas AG Investigates Facebook Over Biometric Privacy Breach
Axios is reporting that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is leading an investigation into social media giant Facebook for possible breaches of the Texas…
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Facebook Returns with Increased Settlement in BIPA Case
Social media giant Facebook has brought forth an adjusted settlement claim to a U.S. District Court for a lawsuit filed against it earlier this year for…
Trio of Tech Giants the Latest on Receiving End of BIPA Lawsuits
Tech giants Microsoft, Amazon and Google are the subjects of the latest high-profile lawsuits for privacy violations under the Illinois Biometric Information…
Judge Freezes Facebook’s BIPA Settlement, Suggesting Too Much Lenience
A $550 million dollar settlement negotiated by Facebook has been put on hold by U.S. District Judge James Donato until lawyers explain to him why the amount is…
Judge Declines to Send Vimeo BIPA Case to Arbitration
New York-based video hosting platform Vimeo lost an appeal in the Northern District of Illinois to have a class-action biometric privacy lawsuit go to…
ACLU is Latest to Bring Legal Action Against Clearview AI
The Illinois branch of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a lawsuit against controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI under the…
Court Sends Shutterfly BIPA Suit to Arbitration
A proposed class-action lawsuit filed against photo-sharing service Shutterfly that alleged it had violated the Illinois Biometric Privacy Act (BIPA) was…
Plaintiff in BIPA Lawsuit Against Clearview AI Wants Biometric Data Destroyed
The plaintiff in a lawsuit filed in January against facial recognition company Clearview AI is asking a federal judge for a preliminary injunction requiring…
Google Facing Class Action Biometrics Lawsuit on Behalf of Illinois Children
Google is facing a lawsuit from the father of two Illinois children claiming the tech giant had violated the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA)…
Google Hit with BIPA Lawsuit Over Faceprints
Google has been accused of violating the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) in a new lawsuit over the compiling of faceprints. This case comes…