January 01, 2024
One of the biggest players in Illinois politics faces a criminal racketeering trial, a host of lawsuits filed under a decades-old genetic information privacy law will advance and the state's high court is expected to further weigh in on insurance coverage for litigation under the state's biometric privacy statute in some of the Illinois cases to watch in 2024.
November 01, 2023
A group of Amazon Alexa users can press forward with allegations that the device's voice identification technology unlawfully collects and handles their biometric voice data, even though some of their claims are relatively thin, an Illinois federal judge said Monday.
July 29, 2022
A group of Amazon customers accusing the retail giant of capturing and storing their personal biometric data through its Alexa voice-activated assistant urged a Chicago federal court on Thursday to retain their suit, saying Amazon has already admitted its software can help identify individual users.
February 05, 2021
An Illinois federal judge on Friday granted Amazon's bid to send two customers' biometric privacy claims over the company's Alexa device to arbitration but said he needs more information before he can decide whether to treat a minor's claim the same way.