Incident 584: Illinois Residents File Class Action Lawsuit Against Facial Recognition Technology Companies for Allegedly Violating BIPA
Description: 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.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Transaction Cloud , Public Mirror , PimEyes , Lukasz Kowalczyk , Giorgi Gobronidze , Face Recognition Solutions , EMEA Robotics , Denis Tatina , Carribex and Does 1-25 developed an AI system deployed by Transaction Cloud , Public Mirror , PimEyes , Lukasz Kowalczyk , Giorgi Gobronidze , Face Recognition Solutions , EMEA Robotics , Does-125 , Denis Tatina and Carribex, which harmed Nicholas Clayton , Misty McGraw , Manuel Clayton , Illinois residents , Amy Newton and Amanda Curry.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
584
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2023-05-18
Editors
Daniel Atherton
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
madisonrecord.com · 2023
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EDWARDSVILLE - A class action lawsuit alleges a facial recognition search engine that searches the internet for peoples' photos invades their privacy in violation of Illinois law.
Plaintiffs Amy Newton, Amanda Curry, Manuel Clayton, Misty M…
Variants
A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.
