BNSF Rail’s biometric data privacy case a pen stroke away from being history

Only a judge’s signature remains to settle one of the more storied biometric privacy lawsuits in the United States.

A $75 million settlement has been reached by litigants in Rogers v. BNSF Railway in the U.S. District Court of Illinois. The final approval belongs to the judge, and it is not known if or when that will occur.

BNSF had collected biometric identifiers from all truck drivers entering BNSF railyards. Under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act, the rail company was …

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