July 17, 2023
A McDonald's customer has agreed to drop his proposed class action alleging the fast-food chain unlawfully collected voice data via artificial intelligence assistants at drive-thru windows, according to a joint stipulation of dismissal filed in Illinois federal court.
April 18, 2023
McDonald's has asked an Illinois federal judge to hand it a win in a proposed class action alleging the burger chain unlawfully collected voice data via artificial-intelligence assistants at its drive-thru windows, arguing that its software only recognizes speech and not individual speakers.
March 22, 2023
McDonald's doesn't deserve a protective order for customer transaction data sought in a proposed class action because the information will only be shared with parties that already have access to it, a man suing the chain for alleged violations of Illinois' privacy law told a federal court.
March 17, 2023
McDonald's has urged an Illinois federal judge to forbid a customer from disclosing to third parties confidential consumer information in his suit claiming the fast food chain unlawfully collected voice data used by drive-thru assistants to take food orders.
November 23, 2021
A McDonald's customer has argued that an Illinois federal judge shouldn't dismiss claims that the company unlawfully collected and disclosed voice data that customers unknowingly provided to its drive-thru assistants because the state's biometric privacy law aims to safeguard precisely that type of information.
November 03, 2021
An Illinois federal judge has granted a McDonald's customer's request to send half of his biometric privacy lawsuit over allegedly unlawful voiceprint collections back to state court, saying his public disclosure and unlawful profiting claims lack standing.
June 28, 2021
McDonald's has urged an Illinois federal court to toss claims that the burger giant collects customer voice data at drive-thrus in violation of the state Biometric Information Privacy Act, arguing that it doesn't use biometric identifiers and there's no evidence such collections take place.
June 04, 2021
A proposed $5 million class action accusing McDonald's of violating Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act by storing customers' voiceprints without their permission has landed in federal court, with the fast-food giant denying liability and saying it owes no statutory damages.