The Times of London Reports on Biometric Data Privacy Action Against Apple Brought by Schlichter Bogard

The Times of London has reported on a biometric data privacy lawsuit against Apple brought by Schlichter Bogard on behalf of Illinois citizens.

As The Times reported, the lawsuit alleges that Apple’s facial-recognition technology creates biologically unique “faceprints” of individuals, including children, who appear in users’ photo libraries, and stores those faceprints on cloud-based servers, without informing users or obtaining user consent. The claims are brought under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, which regulates the collection and use of biometric data.

As The Times further reported, Apple sought to challenge in a federal appellate court the certification of a class of Illinois users of Apple’s products, but the court denied Apple’s request for review.

Schlichter Bogard Co-Managing Partner Andrew Schlichter told The Times that “[t]he allegation that Apple created faceprints of people appearing in photos, including children, and stored those faceprints on its cloud-based servers — without obtaining consent or telling device users what it was doing — raises serious privacy concerns.”

For more information about Schlichter Bogard’s data privacy practice, please contact us at 800‑USE‑LAWS (873‑5297) or via email at contact@uselaws.com.

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