7th Circuit Upholds Remand Of Facial Scan Class Complaint

Mealey's (January 20, 2021, 9:18 AM EST) -- CHICAGO — A class complaint accusing an artificial intelligence company of violating a single section of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) by secretly creating a database of more than 3 billion facial scans on behalf of a class that includes only those who suffered no injury belongs in Illinois state court, a Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Jan. 14, affirming a trial court’s decision and finding that it “know[s] of nothing that would prevent a putative class representative from taking a conservative approach to class definition.”...