Google’s BIPA extraterritoriality dismissal provides key lessons

By David J. Oberly, Biometric Privacy & Data Privacy Attorney

Utilizing a successful extraterritoriality challenge, Google was recently able to procure the dismissal of an Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) class action lawsuit claiming it used a training dataset containing individuals’ biometric data for purposes of improving its facial recognition technologies in violation of the Illinois statute.

The training data, known as the Diversity in Faces Dataset (DiF Dataset), entails a large collection of biometric data that …

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