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Hunton Privacy
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
The suit focuses on Meta’s “tag suggestions” feature, which the company has since retired. The feature scanned faces in users’ photos and videos to suggest “tagging” ( i.e. , identify by name) users who appeared in the photos and videos.
Hunton Privacy
JULY 29, 2020
As we previously reported , Facebook recently reached a $650 million settlement for alleged violations of Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act for their use of facial recognition software without permission from affected users.
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Hunton Privacy
JANUARY 30, 2020
Facebook disclosed on January 29, 2020, that it has agreed to pay $550,000,000 to resolve a biometric privacy class action filed by Illinois users under the Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”). BIPA is an Illinois law enacted in 2008 that governs the collection, use, sharing, protection and retention of biometric information.
The Guardian Data Protection
JANUARY 30, 2020
Tag Suggest feature broke rules by storing facial recognition imagery without permission from users Facebook has settled a lawsuit over facial recognition technology, agreeing to pay $550m (£419m) over accusations it had broken an Illinois state law regulating the use of biometric details.
Krebs on Security
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Pushwoosh employees posing at a company laser tag event. Edwards also found Pushwoosh’s technology embedded in nearly two dozen mobile apps that were sold to cities and towns across Illinois as a way to help citizens access general information about their local communities and officials. Edwards said the U.S.
Hunton Privacy
JANUARY 15, 2019
The cases subsequently were consolidated, and on December 29, 2018, the Northern District of Illinois dismissed the case on standing grounds, finding that despite the existence of statutory standing under BIPA, neither plaintiff had claimed any injury that would support Article III standing. In Spokeo, Inc. Facebook Inc. ,
eDiscovery Daily
FEBRUARY 3, 2019
On January 25, the Illinois Supreme Court rejected an argument from a popular theme park that would have limited a state law that requires consent for the use of facial recognition and other biometrics. With Legaltech® behind us, it’s time to get back to covering interesting news items.
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