Resistance is NOT futile! Woman Sues White Castle For Using Her Fingerprints Without Her Consent: Burger Slinger Could Lose $17 Billion
White Castle collecting fingerprints from burger flippers looks like a $17 million mistake
for Tobias Mann
The Register
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US burger giant White Castle is almost certainly regretting its decisions on employee surveillance after the Illinois Supreme Court on Friday issued an opinion opening the “fast food” company to up to billions in fines .
In what we imagine was a heartbreaking decision for White Castle’s legal team, the court ruled [PDF] in a 4-3 decision that White Castle could be liable for each instance in which it scanned the fingerprints of its 9,500 employees without their consent.
Illinois has required companies to obtain permission before collecting or transmitting an individual’s biometric data since 2008. The fine for failure to do so was between $1,000 and $5,000 per violation, depending on the circumstances.
The case, brought by an Illinois woman who started working at White Castle in 2004, involves the use of workers’ fingerprints to access pay stubs and company computers, she said which were implemented shortly after his incorporation.
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Illinois Supreme Court issues opinion on White Castle’s ongoing biometric privacy case
for Aislin Murphy
Fox business
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The Illinois Supreme Court issued an opinion Friday in an ongoing case against White Castle related to the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) that could result in massive fines.
The opinion came after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit asked the state’s highest court to certify whether BIPA claims accrue with each scan or transmission of biometric data that allegedly violates the law or only in the first instance. The ruling by the Illinois Supreme Court was 4-3.
In the proposed class action case, the plaintiff sued White Castle over allegations that the fast-food chain had “unlawfully collected her biometric data and unlawfully disclosed her data to its third-party vendor.” without their consent for several years after implementing fingerprint scanning for employee computer access, according to the Illinois Supreme Court filing.
Posted on February 18, 2023
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