A blood testing service faces claims that it improperly collects and stores employee fingerprint data in violation of the Illinois biometric privacy law.
Plaintiff Long Tran alleged that Simple Laboratories LLC requires its employees to scan their fingerprints when they arrive and leave work each day.
The company violated Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act by failing to tell employees the purpose for storing their fingerprints, or how long it plans to keep that data, Tran said in a class action filed July 2 in the Illinois Circuit Court, Cook County. Tran also alleged the company failed to get his written ...
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