Driver Advances Brink’s Biometric Privacy Suit Over Face Scans

Private-security firm Brink’s Inc. must face a proposed class action alleging it scanned the faces of its armored-truck drivers without their consent in violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act.

Plaintiff Charles Konow plausibly alleged that the face scans collected by the cameras in the company’s trucks constituted “biometric identifiers” under BIPA, and that Brink’s could connect the scans with other information it possessed to identify drivers, Judge Rebecca R. Pallmeyer of the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois said Tuesday.

Pallmeyer denied the company’s motion to dismiss.

Konow alleged that Brink’s installed cameras in its ...