BNSF Rail asks to settle or retry its BIPA damage award

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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