Home Depot Face Scans Said to Violate Illinois Privacy Law (1)

Home Depot Inc. was hit with a new lawsuit alleging the retailer violated Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act by failing to ask for permission to collect facial scans at self checkout kiosks and not providing a public retention schedule that aligns with the law’s limits.

Chicago resident Benjamin Jankowski filed a proposed class action in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Aug. 1, arguing that Home Depot’s policy of retaining facial data as long as reasonably necessary is insufficient under BIPA, which requires telling people biometric info will be deleted after “a maximum period of three ...