Illinois Residents File Class Action Lawsuit Against Facial Recognition Technology Companies for Allegedly Violating BIPA
- Occurred
- May 18, 2023
- Published
- May 18, 2023
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A class action lawsuit was filed against several facial recognition technology companies for allegedly violating the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). The defendants are accused of offering a facial recognition search engine called Pimeyes, which collects images from databases across the internet and scans them into their database seemingly without consent. This action is claimed to invade the privacy of millions of Americans. The lawsuit argues that Pimeyes lacks publicly available policies regarding data storage and deletion, in contravention of BIPA's requirements for informed written consent before collecting biometric data.
Developers
- Transaction Cloud
- Public Mirror
- PimEyes
- Lukasz Kowalczyk
- Giorgi Gobronidze
- Face Recognition Solutions
- EMEA Robotics
- Does 1-25
- Denis Tatina
- Carribex
- Surveillance technology developers
- Facial recognition system developers
Deployers
- Transaction Cloud
- Public Mirror
- PimEyes
- Lukasz Kowalczyk
- Giorgi Gobronidze
- Face Recognition Solutions
- EMEA Robotics
- Does-125
- Denis Tatina
- Carribex
Harmed parties
- Nicholas Clayton
- Misty McGraw
- Manuel Clayton
- Illinois residents
- Amy Newton
- Amanda Curry
- General public
- General public of Illinois
- Privacy
- Biometric data subjects
Tags
- facial recognition
- privacy
- legal
- biometric data
Classification
Rationale: Class action lawsuit filed over unauthorized biometric data collection violating BIPA privacy law.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8