Mealey's (February 27, 2018, 1:03 PM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — The plaintiffs in a putative class action alleging violations of Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) by Facebook Inc. sufficiently alleged concrete injury under the statute, a California federal judge ruled Feb. 26, denying the social network’s motion to dismiss for what it called the plaintiffs’ failure to allege real world harm (In re Facebook Biometric Information Privacy Litigation, No. 3:15-cv-03747, N.D. Calif., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 30727)....