BIPA Preemption is Punted Past Initial Pleading Stage Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Once again, we find ourselves reviewing a pertinent decision regarding the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”). For our new readers, BIPA regulates the sale and storage of “biometric information”. In 2008, when the legislature enacted it, BIPA was acknowledged as forward thinking. Since then, it has consistently raised novel issues in litigation. A recent case revisits an issue that we have discussed before: whether certain federal statutes may preempt BIPA. In this case, ultimately, the court was unable to reach the issue at the earliest pleading stage. Read on to learn more.
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Three years ago, the European Union (EU) overhauled its 1995 data protection directive with the enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Perhaps somewhat unintendedly, GDPR created a novel privacy philosophy and culture.
The EUâs high privacy standard possibly inspired the California Privacy Right Act (CPRA) and many other national laws around the globe, including recent updates of the Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) in Singapore and the upcoming modernization of privacy laws in Canada and Switzerland. Gradually more countries perceive GDPR as a north star for individual privacy rights, dat
EDWARDSVILLE Estel Foods and others are accused of violating state BIPA laws and failing to make proper disclosures to employees about their fingerprint scans.
EAST ST. LOUIS An international logistics and supply management company with more than 10 facilities in Illinois, is facing a class action alleging it illegally collected employees biometric data.
Zyanne Garner, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, filed a complaint April 13 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois East St. Louis Division against Geodis USA LLC, Geodis Logistics LLC frequently known as Ozburn Hessey Logistics LLC and Geodis Transportation LLC frequently known as Ozburn-Hessey Logistics LLC and OHL Transportation alleging violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA).
Garner alleges in the class action that she began working for the defendants in September of 2018 through May 2019, at its Geodis facility on Gateway Commerce Center Drive in Edwardsville. She claims she and other employees were required to use their fingerprint scanner to clock in and out of work on the company s time keeping