Separately, the Chicago Police Department stopped using the New York company’s software last year after Clearview AI was sued in Cook County by the ACLU.
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BIPA Bellwether: New U.S. Southern District of Illinois Decision Holds Labor Management Relations Act Preempts Employee BIPA Claims Thursday, March 11, 2021
Welcome back to Vedder Price’s BIPA Bellwether series. As with our TCPA Turnstile, we intend for the BIPA Bellwether to serve as a periodic report on latest developments.
Last week, the Southern District of Illinois decided to dismiss the lawsuit in
Barton v. Swan Surfaces LLC, No. 20-CV-499-SPM, 2021 WL 793983 (S.D. Ill. Mar. 2, 2021). In doing so, the Southern District joined the U.S. Northern District’s trend of finding claims brought under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”), 740 ILCS 14
A recent case extended the notion that federal law precludes Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act BIPA claims when a collective bargaining agreement must be interpreted.
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