Bloomberg Law
Feb. 28, 2017, 3:12 PM UTC

Google Can’t Avoid Privacy Suit Over Biometric Face Prints

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By Joel Rosenblatt, Bloomberg News

Google users who say the company’s facial recognition technology flouts their privacy rights won the first round of a court fight.

A federal judge in Chicago ruled Monday that the world’s largest search engine must face claims that it violated the privacy of millions of users by gathering and storing biometric data without their consent. Facebook Inc. is fighting similar claims in San Francisco federal court.

U.S. District Judge Edmond E. Chang’s decision to let the class-action case proceed might leave Google on the hook under a unique Illinois law for fines of $1,000 to ...

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