Security Camera Maker Stuck With Illinois Biometric Privacy Suit

Anker Innovations failed to convince a court to dismiss an Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act suit after a federal judge said the plaintiffs sufficiently alleged their data was collected in the state.

The security camera and doorbells maker argued that the case should’ve been dismissed on jurisdictional grounds because the alleged BIPA violation didn’t primarily happen in Illinois.

But the plaintiffs sufficiently supported their allegation because they said “the access to their biometric identifiers without their consent occurred at their residences, where they installed the cameras,” Judge Sara Ellis of the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, ...