Aug. 18, 2023, 6:10 p.m. | Jim Nash

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The defendant in one of the highest profile biometric privacy cases in the United States may want out of the case through a settlement.

BNSF Railway has been found guilty in Illinois of violating that state's landmark Biometric Information Privacy Act. It collected biometric scans of truck drivers entering its yards as a security measure but did not get consent from drivers entering Illinois BNSF facilities.

In case 2019cv03083, the rail company was ordered by a jury to pay …

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