In 2o15 and 2016, a rush of class-action lawsuits were filed by people in Illinois against tech companies. The impetus was an unusual law in the Prairie State. In 2008, the state passed the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, making it, along with Texas, one of only two states at the time with laws on the…
Source: Gizmodo – A Judge Denied Facebook’s Attempt to Kill a Privacy Suit Over Biometric Face Prints