Lytx’s $4.25 Million Biometric-Privacy Settlement Gets Final Nod

Driver-monitoring services provider Lytx Inc. will pay $4.25 million to settle allegations it collected the biometric identifiers of truck drivers without their consent, under a deal given final approval by a federal court.

The deal will allocate 50% of the settlement fund to a sub-class of Illinois residents, and 50% to a larger sub-class of non-Illinois residents whose claims were subject to challenge on extraterritoriality grounds, according to the plaintiffs’ motion for final approval of the deal. Judge Nancy J. Rosenstengel granted the motion at a July 24 hearing, according to a docket entry.

• The plaintiffs alleged in two ...