Candid Color Systems Narrows Privacy Suit Over Graduation Photos

A photography marketing company trimmed for now a claim from an Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act proposed class action for high school and college graduates, after a federal court granted in part its motion to dismiss.

The plaintiffs didn’t have standing to pursue a claim under BIPA section 15(c)—which prevents private entities from selling, leasing, trading, or otherwise profiting from a person’s biometric data—because they failed to adequately allege a particularized injury, according to the US District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma. The court dismissed that claim without prejudice.

But the complaint sufficiently alleged that Candid Color Systems ...