IBM Trims Privacy Lawsuit Over Its ‘Diversity in Faces’ Dataset

International Business Machines Corp. persuaded a federal judge to trim Biometric Information Privacy Act claims from a proposed class action it’s facing in the Northern District of Illinois.

Several of the claims from plaintiffs Steven Vance and Tim Janecyk are dismissed because they’re “duplicative” of one of their existing BIPA claims, Judge Charles P. Kocoras wrote in an order filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Attorneys representing Vance and Janecyk didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Vance sued IBM in January 2020, accusing the tech company of violating BIPA with its ...