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Texas Attorney General Announces First CUBI Settlement

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Keypoint: The Texas Attorney General reached a $1.4 billion settlement with Meta over its alleged violations of Texas’ biometric privacy law. On July 30, 2024, the Texas Attorney General announced that it has reached a $1.4...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Facebook BIPA Class Settlement Receives Preliminary Approval

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On August 19, 2020, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California granted preliminary approval of the class action settlement in In re Facebook Biometric Information Privacy Litigation,...more

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When Half a Billion Dollars is Not Enough: What the Facebook Settlement Can Teach Us

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On July 23, 2020, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California signaled that a $650 million settlement of claims against Facebook, Inc. for alleged violations of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy...more

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Facebook Facing Massive Class Action Trial: Ninth Circuit Rules BIPA Class Action Can Proceed

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In January 2019, we reported on the Illinois Supreme Court’s decision, Rosenbach v. Six Flags Entertainment Corp., where the highest court in Illinois unanimously found that an individual need not allege (or show) an actual...more

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

Finding Article III Standing, Ninth Circuit Declines to Do an About-Face in Illinois Biometric Privacy Class Action against...

In an important opinion, the Ninth Circuit affirmed a lower court’s ruling that plaintiffs in the ongoing Facebook biometric privacy class action have alleged a concrete injury-in-fact to confer Article III standing and that...more

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Biometrics: California Federal Court in Facebook Case Certifies First Class In Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act Case,...

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On April 16, 2018, a California federal court certified a class of individuals suing Facebook for violating Illinois’s Biometric Information Privacy Act, paving the way for potentially billions of dollars in statutory...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

About face: court finds biometric information creates unique privacy rights

Just two months after an Illinois appellate court dismissed a similar complaint alleging a violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), a California federal court found that a claim asserted under BIPA...more

K&L Gates LLP

Spokeo Fails Facebook: Privacy Violation Held to Constitute Concrete Harm Under Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act

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On Monday, February 26, 2018, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California denied defendant Facebook’s motion to dismiss In re Facebook Biometric Information Privacy Litigation, finding plaintiffs...more

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Biometrics: California Federal Court Denies Spokeo Motion to Dismiss Facebook Biometric Information Privacy Act Case

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On February 26, 2018, a California federal court denied Facebook’s motion to dismiss claims under Illinois’s Biometric Information Privacy Act, finding the plaintiff had Article-III standing despite the absence of tangible...more

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

California Court Refuses to Dismiss Biometric Privacy Suit against Facebook

The District Court for the Northern District of California recently issued what could be a very significant decision on a number of important digital law issues. These include: the enforceability of “clickwrap” as compared...more

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

Facial Recognition Technology: Social Media and Beyond, an Emerging Concern

This week, a major self-regulatory initiative intended to address privacy concerns associated with facial recognition technology hit a significant stumbling block. Nine consumer advocacy groups withdrew from the National...more

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