An Illinois man can’t sue his former employer for clocking him in and out of work by scanning his fingerprints without written consent because he didn’t prove he was injured by the practice, a federal judge ruled.
Judge Edmond E. Chang of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, said Richard McGinnis didn’t demonstrate a concrete injury in dismissing his privacy lawsuit against U.S. Cold Storage Inc.
McGinnis, in a class action suit, alleged that the company violated the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act by collecting and storing his biometric data without getting his permission ...
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