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Biometric privacy suits brought under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”) continue to remain one of the hottest areas of class action litigation today, which can be attributed primarily to the fact that high statutory damages awards can be recovered by large classes of employees, consumers, and similar groups of individuals for mere technical violations of the law. To further compliance matters, many BIPA decisions issued to date have skewed heavily in favor of plaintiffs, which has resulted in a significant expansion of potential litigation risk under the statute. 

In Mora v. J&M Plating, Inc., No. 2-21-0692, 2022 IL App (2d) 210692 (Ill. App. Ct. 2d Dist. Nov. 30, 2022), the Illinois Second District Court of Appeals continued the trend of plaintiff-favorable BIPA decisions in 2022, holding that private entities run afoul of BIPA’s Section 15(a) data retention and destruction disclosure requirements where they fail to have in place a BIPA-compliant data retention/destruction disclosure at the time biometric data is initially possessed, and that subsequent disclosures cannot serve retroactively to remedy prior violations of this component of the law. Importantly, Mora underscores the need for companies to ensure they have satisfied all of the applicable requirements of BIPA prior to the time any biometric data is collected or possessed in order to mitigate the sizeable legal risks associated with legal non-compliance.  Continue Reading Illinois Appellate Court Issues Key, Plaintiff-Favorable Opinion On BIPA Data Retention Disclosure Requirements 

Welcome to the 2022 Q3 edition of the Artificial Intelligence & Biometric Privacy Report, your go-to source for keeping you in the know on all recent major artificial intelligence (“AI”) and biometric privacy developments that have taken place over the course of the last three months. We invite you to share this resource with your colleagues and visit Squire Patton Boggs’ Data Privacy, Cybersecurity & Digital Assets and Privacy & Data Breach Litigation homepages for more information about our capabilities and team.

Also, we are extremely pleased to announce that our own Kristin Bryan was named as a 2022 Law360 Cybersecurity & Privacy MVP. As Law360 notes, “[t]he attorneys chosen as Law360’s 2022 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.” You can read more about Kristin’s Law360 award here: Law360 MVP Awards Go to 188 Attorneys From 78 Firms.Continue Reading 2022 Q3 Artificial Intelligence & Biometric Privacy Report

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For almost four years now, attorneys have remained relentless in their quest to extend the outer boundaries of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) as far as courts are willing to allow. During this period, many defendants have struggled with procuring dismissals of BIPA class claims.

One particular defense, however, has developed into an extremely robust tool for companies engaged in biometric privacy class suits: BIPA’s “financial institution” exemption. Contrary to what its name suggests, the benefits of this entity-level carve-out extend to a range of entities well beyond traditional banks and financial institutions. A recent BIPA opinion issued by a Northern District of Illinois court demonstrates the expansive scope of the exemption and provides several key takeaways for defendants to defend against—and outright defeat—BIPA claims at a time when biometric privacy class action exposure continues to grow.Continue Reading Federal Court Dismisses Biometric Privacy Class Action Brought Against University, On Basis It Was a Regulated “Financial Institution”

While the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) remains one of the hottest areas of class action litigation today, many core issues underlying BIPA disputes remain unsettled and uncertain at this time. And as the recent decision by the Northern District of Illinois in Kukovec v. Estee Lauder Co., Inc., No. 22 CV 1988, 2022 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 202212 (N.D. Ill. Nov. 7, 2022) shows, courts are often in disagreement on many of these key matters—underscoring the need for compliance with the statutory requirements of the Illinois biometrics law.  

Plaintiff Kukovec used a makeup try-on tool (“VTO Tool”) on the website of Too Faced Cosmetics, owned by Estee Lauder. The plaintiff claimed that the VTO Tool collected her facial geometry in violation of Sections 15(a) and (b) of BIPA. Estee Lauder subsequently moved to dismiss the complaint based on (among other things) the existence of an agreement to arbitrate and failure to plead a cognizable claim.Continue Reading Recent BIPA Opinion Illustrates Continued Uncertainty Underlying Core Issues in Biometric Privacy Class Action Litigation

CPW’s Kristin Bryan was recently interviewed about “BIPA and Forthcoming Changes to Biometric Privacy Laws” on the LexisNexis Practical Guidance Podcast’s third episode of the Data Privacy Series. During her interview with Kevin Hylton, who hosts the podcast, Kristin sets the stage for the rise in BIPA class action claims in areas such…

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In January 2019, the Illinois Supreme Court opened the floodgates to class action litigation pursued under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”) when the state’s highest court held in Rosenbach v. Six Flags Ent. Corp., 2019 IL 123186, 129 N.E.3d 1197 (Ill. 2019), that plaintiffs do not have to allege any actual injury or damages to pursue claims under the state’s biometric privacy statute; instead, mere technical violations of the law are sufficient. Today, the world of biometric privacy litigation experienced a development noteworthy enough to put it on equal footing with Rosenbach, with a jury finding in favor of a class of Illinois truck drivers in the first BIPA class action to be tried to verdict.
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