Google Defends 7th Circuit Appeal Of Biometric Privacy Ruling In Its Favor

Mealey's (February 27, 2019, 12:42 PM EST) -- CHICAGO — In a Feb. 25 jurisdictional memorandum, Google LLC explains that its cross-appeal of a ruling in its favor that dismissed claims over Google’s facial recognition photo-tagging feature is necessary because it intends to advance an alternative argument for affirmance, telling the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals that a trial court should have dismissed the claims brought under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) for failure to state a claim (Lindabeth Rivera v. Google LLC, Nos. 19-1182 and 19-1242, 7th Cir.)....