Suits Over ‘Google Photos’ Feature Under Illinois Biometric Law Survive Dismissal

Mealey's (March 1, 2017, 2:48 PM EST) -- CHICAGO — An Illinois federal judge on Feb. 27 denied a motion by Google Inc. to dismiss two putative class complaints alleging that it violated Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) via facial recognition capability in its “Google Photos” feature, with the judge finding that the plaintiffs sufficiently alleged that Google collected their “biometric identifiers” (Lindabeth Rivera v. Google Inc., No. 1:16-cv-02714, and Joseph Weiss v. Google Inc., No. 1:16-cv-02870, N.D. Ill., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 27276)....