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Rivera et al v. Google LLC.
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August 31, 2021
Federal Judge Stays Google Face-Scan Suit For State Action
An Illinois federal judge on Tuesday said an Illinois state court should get the first crack at resolving claims that Google violated the Illiniois Biometric Information Privacy Act and stayed a similar federal class action, saying the stay avoids costly piecemeal litigation.
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January 02, 2019
Google Gets Win In Ill. Face-Scanning Privacy Suit
An Illinois federal judge has granted Google a win in a proposed class action from Google Photos users who accused the tech giant of violating the state's Biometric Information Privacy Act by creating templates of their faces, finding they had not suffered a concrete injury that would give them standing.
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March 31, 2017
Google Can't Pause Face-Mapping Tech Suit, Consumers Say
A putative class of consumers on Friday said Google can't stay proceedings to appeal parts of an Illinois federal judge's recent refusal to nix claims that its face-mapping technology violates a state biometrics law, saying the company was "grasping at straws" with its argument the law in question may be unconstitutional.
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March 14, 2017
Google Wants 7th Circ.'s Input In Biometric Privacy Row
Google is pushing to appeal to the Seventh Circuit a recent Illinois federal court ruling declining to nix a putative class action accusing it of violating Illinois' biometric privacy law by using face-mapping technology, arguing that the question of whether the statute applies to information derived from photographs warrants immediate review.
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February 28, 2017
Google Too Hasty To Shed Face-Scan Privacy Suit, Court Says
Google cannot escape a putative class action accusing it of violating an Illinois privacy law through the use of face mapping technology, with a federal judge ruling Monday that it was too soon to determine if the law impedes upon the tech giant's activities in other states.
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July 05, 2016
Google's Face Scans Fall Under Ill. Privacy Law, Court Told
A pair of consumers on Friday shot back at Google's argument that its practice of scanning photos to create detailed face templates doesn't violate Illinois' biometric privacy law, countering that scanned photographs are covered by the statute and that compliance would not impact Google's ability to operate outside the state.