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$51.75M Settlement in Clearview AI Biometric Privacy Litigation Illustrates Creative Resolution for Startups Facing Parallel...

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On Thursday, March 20, a federal judge in the Northern District of Illinois granted final approval to a settlement agreement under which Clearview AI (Clearview) agreed to pay an estimated $51.75 million to a nationwide class...more

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Data Privacy Guide - USA - Illinois

Introduction - Illinois has enacted laws addressing rights and obligations related to data privacy. Companies and organizations that handle, collect, disseminate, or otherwise deal in nonpublic information have a number of...more

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Illinois Supreme Court Upholds Per-Scan Damages for BIPA Claims

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Seyfarth Synopsis: In February 2023, the Illinois Supreme Court issued a landmark opinion in Cothron v. White Castle finding that claims under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”) accrue each time a private...more

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Kilpatrick Townsend’s U.S. Privacy Law Guide: Introduction to State Regulations

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While there is no comprehensive, federal United States law governing privacy, there are several major state laws that are currently in place. To help our clients assess their compliance posture, we have published a quick,...more

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Five Years It Is — Illinois Supreme Court Decides BIPA Statute of Limitations

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In a unanimous decision, the Illinois Supreme Court held that an appellate court erred “in applying two different statutes of limitations” to Illinois’ Biometric Information and Privacy Act (BIPA). Accordingly, all BIPA...more

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Seventh Circuit Affirms District Court Decision Refusing To Refer Putative Class Action Under the Illinois Biometric Information...

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In Joshua Johnson v. Mitek Systems, Inc., the Seventh Circuit affirmed a district court order denying defendant Mitek Systems, Inc.’s motion to compel arbitration of the plaintiff’s claims brought under the Illinois Biometric...more

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BIPA and Insurance Coverage II – Are You Ready for Some Case Law?

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With football season in full swing, fans and fantasy football owners alike are busy watching games and tossing around acronyms like passes – Xs and Os, TDs, PATs, PPR, YACs, and many more. And on the legal gridiron, insurers...more

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More Privacy, Please - November 2022

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Editor’s Note: The California Privacy Protection Agency released amendments to its draft regulations, and the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau contemplates rulemaking on sharing financial data. In U.S. litigation, the first...more

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Washington Court Finds Illinois’ BIPA Does Not Apply Outside the State

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On October 17, a U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington issued an order and judgment, ending two related putative class actions alleging tech companies violated Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act...more

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Are You Ready for the BIPA Tsunami? The New Wave of Biometric Statutes

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The Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”) has steadily become one of the most important and influential privacy statutes in the United States. Indeed, the collection, use, and storage of the biometric...more

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Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - January 2022

In this month’s Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s letter to Congress calling for federal cybersecurity legislation, the New York attorney general’s report on “credential stuffing”...more

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California’s Senate Bill 41: The Genetic Information Privacy Act

Our previous blog post on pending California privacy legislation included a prediction that has since materialized: Governor Newsom signed the Genetic Information Privacy Act (“GIPA”) on October 6, 2021, and the law will go...more

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California Expands Privacy and Security Requirements for Genetic Data

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With health-related data and how to protect it at the forefront of discussion since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, this week California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law two bills related to genetic data. First, AB...more

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Developments in Biometric Information Privacy Laws

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In 2008, Illinois became the first state to enact a Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). BIPA regulates “the collection, use, safeguarding, handling, storage, retention, and destruction of biometric identifiers and...more

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More Privacy, Please - April 2021

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Do you want a simple way to keep current on important privacy changes? Avoid sleepless nights wondering whether you missed a privacy speed bump or pothole between annual updates? Worry no longer. Troutman Pepper is pleased to...more

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More Privacy, Please

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Do you want a simple way to keep current on important privacy changes? Avoid sleepless nights wondering whether you missed a privacy speed bump or pothole between annual updates? Worry no longer. Troutman Pepper is pleased to...more

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The Latest on California’s Approach to Biometrics in the Workplace

Although California does not have a specific biometric privacy law like Illinois’s 2008 Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) or its recently enacted 2019 Artificial Intelligence Video Interview Act (AIVIA), stay tuned for...more

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The Fun App Trap

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We’ve all seen the funny faces appearing across the internet as friends and family use the FaceApp to see what they may look like in 30 to 50 years. The resulting images are wrinkled and gray, but the trade made—instead of...more

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