The start of this month has already brought news of a potentially high-profile lawsuit under Illinois’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), this time against the online dating platform Tinder, thanks to its use of face biometrics to verify the identities of some of its users. But it’s just the latest in a stream of cases from what some observers have called a cottage industry, as BIPA’s dragnet sweeps up all manner of alleged offenders. Here’s a roundup of cases that caught our attention over the past month:
A New Foe Has Appeared: Mass Arbitration
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