Mealey's (September 19, 2019, 10:49 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Chamber of Commerce was one of five amici curiae that filed briefs Sept. 16 supporting Facebook Inc.’s petition for rehearing, asking the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to reconsider a panel’s ruling that affirmed certification of a class seeking damages under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), with the chamber arguing that certification was improper because the plaintiffs have not pleaded any harm from the social network’s use of facial recognition technology in its “Tag Suggestions” feature (In re Facebook Biometric Information Privacy Litigation, No. 18-15982, 9th Cir.)....