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In Re: Clearview AI, Inc., Consumer Privacy Litigation

  1. March 15, 2022

    Clearview Asserts Its Facial Data Photo Scrapes Are Legal

    Locked in a multidistrict battle over alleged biometric privacy violations, Clearview AI answered consumers' claims Monday by arguing the company isn't acting illegally by scraping the internet for public photos for its facial recognition database and that it should be exempt from Illinois' biometric privacy laws as a government contractor.

  2. March 10, 2022

    Consumers Blast Macy's Early Appeal Bid In Data Privacy MDL

    Consumers locked in multidistrict litigation over Clearview AI's facial recognition technology and companies that use it urged a federal judge Wednesday to reject Macy's bid to take a "proverbial second bite of the apple" in its effort to ditch Illinois residents' biometric privacy claims.

  3. February 15, 2022

    MDL Judge Rejects Clearview's 1st Amendment Defense

    An Illinois federal judge ruled Monday that facial recognition technology company Clearview AI does not have a First Amendment right to dodge multidistrict litigation claims that it unlawfully collected biometric information from photos on the internet.

  4. January 28, 2022

    Macy's Gets Claims Trimmed In Facial-Data Privacy MDL

    An Illinois federal judge dismissed two claims against Macy's in a biometric privacy class action multidistrict litigation under California Unfair Competition Law and New York common law, but kept intact a number of claims under those states' laws and Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act.

  5. January 03, 2022

    Cybersecurity & Privacy Cases To Watch In 2022

    A key test of the scope of damages claims under Illinois' biometric privacy law and a bid to apply a new theory of liability to federal anti-robocall law are among the cybersecurity and privacy litigation that attorneys should keep a close eye on in 2022.

  6. August 09, 2021

    Ill. Residents Say Macy's Belongs In Facial-Data Privacy MDL

    Illinois residents urged a federal judge Friday not to let Macy's turn the state's landmark biometric privacy statute into "a toothless tiger," saying the court should decline the company's bid to escape multidistrict litigation stemming from a facial recognition database developed by Clearview AI Inc.

  7. July 27, 2021

    Profs, 1st Amendment Clinic Side With Facial Data Co. In Suit

    The First Amendment Clinic at Duke Law and two law professors backed Clearview AI in an Illinois federal court suit, arguing that the First Amendment protects the facial recognition company's practice of extracting biometric data from online images of people's faces.

  8. June 29, 2021

    Macy's Wants Out Of Clearview AI Facial-Data Privacy MDL

    Department store chain Macy's argued Monday to be excused from Illinois multidistrict litigation over alleged biometric privacy violations by Clearview AI, saying consumers haven't shown an injury related to their claims that the company used Clearview's database to identify unknown individuals.

  9. May 25, 2021

    Clearview AI Urges Ill. Court To Toss Biometric MDL Claims

    Clearview AI wants an Illinois federal judge to toss multidistrict litigation claims that it unlawfully collected biometric information from photos on the internet, arguing that the allegations attack conduct that largely occurred out of state.

  10. May 18, 2021

    Class Wants Clearview Blocked From Foreign Data Sharing

    Illinois residents suing Clearview AI over alleged violations of the Biometric Information Privacy Act on Tuesday urged the judge overseeing their multidistrict litigation to immediately block the facial recognition company from distributing their personal data after learning that it set up offshore companies to provide its software to foreign countries.

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