The Weekly Privacy Rewind - May 7, 2018

Class Actions

Google Seeks Dismissal of BIPA Class Action

• Google has sought dismissal of a putative class action lawsuit alleging violations of Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA).
• According to the original complaint, Google allegedly violated BIPA by scanning photos of nonusers uploaded to Google Photos and then "extracting geometric data" of the subjects of those photos, creating facial templates, or so-called faceprints.
• In its motion to dismiss, Google argued that the putative class representatives do not have standing because "there is no evidence of data breach; no evidence of disclosure to third parties; and no evidence of misuse of any data."

Data Breaches