In April this year the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) issued a press release (the “April Release”) signaling the agency’s focus on advances in artificial intelligence (“AI”) going forward. The April Release highlighted the FTC’s purported concern with how advances in AI could be utilized without “inadvertently introducing bias or other unfair outcomes” to medicine, finance,
CPW has previously blogged about the Bryant litigation which concerned a putative class action brought under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”). In 2020, the Seventh Circuit issued a landmark standing decision concerning whether the Plaintiff in Bryant could proceed with litigating her claims in federal court. Recently, in that case Compass Group USA
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A federal court this week in the McDonald’s AI litigation found that Plaintiff lacks Article III standing to pursue BIPA Section 15(a) and 15(c) claims. Consequently, it remanded these claims back to state court while letting other BIPA claims remain in federal court. Carpenter v. McDonald’s Corporation, Case No. 1:21-cv-02906 (N.D. Ill.). This
In Bradenberg v. Meridian Senior Living, LLC, No. 20-cv-03198 (C.D. Ill. Sept. 30, 2021), another BIPA complaint this year proceeded past the complaint stage, as the Court found that Plaintiff’s allegations were sufficient to state a claim. While open ended questions remain regarding the statute’s scope and damages provisions (some of which may
Last week a federal court in Illinois granted preliminary approval to a $92 million settlement reached in the TikTok multidistrict litigation (“MDL”), over objections that had been raised in March concerning the basis and terms of settlement. Read on to learn more.
As readers of CPW already know, last year the Panel on Multidistrict
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In case you missed their presentation this week to the Association of Corporate Counsel, the webinar given by CPW’s Alan Friel, Kyle Fath and Kristin Bryan was recorded and is now available here. In it they cover an update on new US privacy laws, including for California, Colorado and Virginia (among others), as well
Currently pending before the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals is the important question of when a claim under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”) accrues. Cothron v. White Castle, No. 20-3202 (7th Cir.) In another litigation CPW previously identified, a panel for the Illinois Court of Appeals recently addressed whether BIPA
In case you missed it, below is a summary of recent posts from CPW. Please feel free to reach out if you are interested in additional information on any of the developments covered.