Samsung and biometric privacy
CHICAGO — Samsung defeated a class action filed in Illinois federal court, which tossed consumers’ Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act claims. The customers said Samsung’s facial recognition technology, used in its photo gallery app, violated the law by collecting their facial geometry without consent. The court said there isn’t enough evidence on the record to show Samsung receives that biometric data.
Read the ruling here.
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