DAL Global Services LLC, an aviation ground handling service provider, was hit with a proposed biometric privacy class action in April of this year in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. This week the court ruled that the class action may proceed after the court ruled that the plaintiff’s claims were
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Airline Cargo Company Sued under Illinois Biometric Law
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Enforcement + Litigation
Alliance Ground International is the latest company to be sued for allegedly violating the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) for collecting and storing its employees’ fingerprints without their consent.
The proposed class of employees alleges that the company, which takes employees’ fingerprints as part of their time keeping records for their work as bag…