Do-over for damages in $228M biometric data privacy suit, maybe not for the law itself

BNSF Railway will get a chance to alter the $228 million awarded in a judgement of class action damages granted to truck drivers over violations of Illinois’ biometric data privacy law, with a new ruling that the jury should have discretion over the total.

The same decision that found each biometric scan potentially represents an actionable violation also found that damages are discretionary under the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act. Now Reuters reports that U.S. District Judge Matthew Kennelly, while …

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