No hearing necessary as biometric data privacy lawsuit against FaceTec dropped

A lawsuit alleging biometric data privacy violations by FaceTec has been formally dismissed without a hearing, after plaintiffs’ counsel discovered that the requirements for collecting informed consent from data subjects do not apply to the facial authentication provider.

The allegations under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act apply to entities storing and using people’s biometrics. In contrast to facial authentication providers who provide their biometrics checks as a cloud service running on third-party servers, FaceTec’s software runs on its customers’ servers, …

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