BIPA defendants and their biometrics providers protected by common interest (sometimes)

A judge in the Northern District of Illinois has denied a motion from a plaintiff under the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act to force Union Pacific to produce communications between it and the vendor that supplied its biometric security gates.

The decision implies that the common interest doctrine protects communication between biometrics vendors and their customers in BIPA cases, whether they are named as defendants or not, the National Law Review writes.

The article from a trio of attorneys with …

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