The BIPA, which was enacted on October 3, 2008, regulates the retention, collection, disclosure, and destruction of “biometric identifiers” and “biometric information”. The BIPA was the first, and ...

On August 9, 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit unanimously upheld certification of a class of Illinois Facebook users alleging that the social media giant’s facial recognition ...

CHICAGO (CN) — The Seventh Circuit on Monday left it in the hands of the Illinois Supreme Court to determine whether an employee’s biometric rights are violated each time they use their fingerprint to ...

“In Mitsui, the Seventh Circuit held that the exclusion unambiguously applies to biometric information and therefore precludes the insurer’s duty to defend or indemnify the BIPA class action,” U.S.

A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday said federal courts have jurisdiction over claims by consumers and workers that companies violated a unique Illinois law by failing to get their permission to collect ...