Rejecting BIPA settlement with Google, some plaintiffs regroup for new suit

Some plaintiffs who balked at the payout they would have received last year after winning a biometric privacy class action settlement against Google are circling back for a better result.

Sixty plaintiffs were disappointed when they learned that they would net $95 each for settling their suit charging Google with violating the U.S. state of Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act.

BIPA requires companies wanting to collect the biometric identifiers of state residents to get their written consent first and inform …

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