Busy start to the year for BIPA could get busier with genetics lawsuits

The U.S. state of Illinois’ biometrics privacy law makes winners and losers in equal measure and today’s no different. Here are three cases and a warning for some vendors.

First is Meta’s defense against a Biometric Information Privacy Act case. A California federal judge has left the social media company with a shred of hope for a dismissal.

According to coverage by legal trade publication Law360, the judge in Meta’s case has tentatively decided to deny most of grounds …

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