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On Friday, the plaintiffs in the consolidated class action against facial recognition company Clearview AI filed a motion for preliminary injunction and a memorandum in support of the motion related to allegations that the defendants surreptitiously scraped and obtained the plaintiffs’ and class’ photographs and harvested their biometrics to use in the company’s searchable facial recognition database; the plaintiffs asserted that the defendants violated Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act and have failed to sufficiently remedy their conduct on their own.
According to the motion, filed in the Northern District of Illinois, the plaintiffs seek to enjoin Clearview AI and the named defendants from “(c)ontinuing to possess, use and store the unlawfully collected biometric identifiers and biometric information (collectively, ‘Biometric Data’) of Illinois residents”; “(c)ollecting, capturing or obtaining Illinois residents’ Biometric Data without first providing the notice and obtaining the releases required by Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (‘BIPA’), 740 ILCS 14/1,