December 10, 2024
An Illinois federal judge refused Tuesday to certify a class of hotel workers accusing software provider Unifocus of violating Illinois' landmark biometric privacy law, saying their class representative had become a "forbidden figurehead plaintiff" who didn't see the operative complaint until more than three years into the litigation.
September 27, 2021
An Illinois federal judge on Monday refused to throw out a lawsuit accusing software company Unifocus of violations of Illinois' landmark biometric privacy law, saying during a hearing that she was unpersuaded by the Texas-based company's argument that she lacks jurisdiction to handle the case.
July 30, 2019
Software company Unifocus urged an Illinois federal judge Monday to toss a privacy suit over a timekeeping system it provided to a Chicago hotel that collected users' fingerprint information, arguing that it should not have to face "nonsensical" claims because it was never the workers' employer.
May 23, 2019
A proposed class of workers asked an Illinois federal judge to reject a software company's bid to dismiss a suit alleging the firm violated the state's biometric privacy law by failing to ask for employees' consent to use their fingerprints as part of a timekeeping system.
September 25, 2018
The Chicago Loews hotel violated the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act when it failed to ask for an employee's consent while using his fingerprints as part of a timekeeping system, the worker said in a proposed class action filed Monday in federal court.