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Companies that develop, supply, or use biometric technologies in commercial operations should expect to see a continued high volume of class action filings.

Since its enactment in 2008, Illinois's Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) has produced a wave of privacy-related litigation across the United States, and 2023 was no exception.

This post is part of a series of articles we are doing on 2023 data protection litigation trends. Since its enactment in 2008, Illinois’s Biometric Information Privacy...

The majority of courts to date have held that BIPA extends to biometric technology vendors, mandating full compliance with Illinois’s biometric privacy statute.

Third-party litigation financing (TPLF) is an arrangement by which plaintiffs finance litigation costs through a non-party, typically a private firm that obtain funds from other...

On February 17, 2023, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that violations of the Biometric Information Privacy Act ("BIPA") (the country's first biometric privacy legislation) accrue for each incident of capture or dissemination of biometric information, and not only once for each data subject.

Courts expand MEPPs reach. Ninth Circuit lowers bar for MEPPs to enforce Withdrawal Liability against successors. Seventh Circuit to allow MEPPs to enforce a predecessor’s Withdrawal Liability against successors. Indiana Elec. Workers Pension Benefit Fund v. ManWeb Servs.