Illinois Residents File Class Action Lawsuit Against Facial Recognition Technology Companies for Allegedly Violating BIPA
A class action lawsuit was filed against several facial recognition technology companies for allegedly violating the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). The defendants are accused of offering a facial recognition search engine called Pimeyes, which collects images from databases across the internet and scans them into their database seemingly without consent. This action is claimed to invade the privacy of millions of Americans. The lawsuit argues that Pimeyes lacks publicly available policies regarding data storage and deletion, in contravention of BIPA's requirements for informed written consent before collecting biometric data.
- Date it happened
- 2023-05-18
- Organisation involved
- Transaction Cloud, Public Mirror, PimEyes, Lukasz Kowalczyk, Giorgi Gobronidze, Face Recognition Solutions, EMEA Robotics, Does-125, Denis Tatina, Carribex
- Product, system or model
- Surveillance technology, PimEyes facial recognition search engine, PimEyes facial image database, Facial image search engines, Faceprint generation systems, Biometric data processing systems, Facial r
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