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Google's Face Grouping Allegedly Collected and Analyzed Users' Facial Structure without Consent, Violated BIPA

Occurred: May 1, 2015
Published: Sep 24, 2022
Source: AI Incident Database

Summary

A class-action lawsuit alleged Google failing to provide notice, obtain informed written consent, or publish data retention policies about the collection, storage, and analysis of its face-grouping feature in Google Photos, which violated Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA).

Developers

Google

Deployers

Google

Harmed parties

Illinois residents
Google Photos users residing in Illinois
Google Photos users
Privacy
Biometric data subjects

Classification

Category confidence: 95%

Severity confidence: 90%

Rationale: Class-action lawsuit over unauthorized biometric data collection violates BIPA.

Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8

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