Schlichter Apple Inc. argues that providing the personal information of Illinois residents with Apple devices and accounts for discovery purposes violates their privacy in a lawsuit alleging its photo app collects and stores biometric identifiers through facial recognition technology. Attorney Andrew Schlichter of Schlichter Bogard & Denton LLP in St. Louis filed a motion to compel class discovery on April 19 on behalf of the putative class. Schlichter wrote that “class members are Illinois residents with Apple devices whose biometric information was collected without their consent in violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA).” He wrote that the request is “minimally burdensome” for Apple to produce.