ABT Electronics Wins Motion to Stay Biometric Privacy Claims

ABT Electronics Inc. won its bid to stay Biometric Information Privacy Act claims pending the resolution of two BIPA cases before the Illinois Supreme Court, after an Illinois federal judge agreed that the pending cases would impact the viability of the lawsuit.

Former employee Justin Gibbs claimed that ABT required him to clock in and out of work with his fingerprints, but didn’t obtain his consent before collecting the biometric information. ABT also improperly disclosed his information to at least one third-party vendor and failed to provide a publicly available retention and destruction schedule for the data, Gibbs said.

Judge ...