Judge Certifies Illinois Users Class In Facebook Facial Scan Privacy Suit

Mealey's (April 18, 2018, 8:17 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A group of Illinois Facebook Inc. users were handed another victory April 16, as a California judge certified one of the proposed classes in their lawsuit, in which they claim that the social network operator violated the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) by collecting users’ facial scans in connection with a photo-tagging feature (In re Facebook Biometric Information Privacy Litigation, No. 3:15-cv-03747, N.D. Calif., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 63930)....