DePaul University won’t have to face a proposed class action over biometric information captured and stored by a remote proctoring tool it uses during online exams, a federal court ruled.
Cody Powell, a former DePaul student, claimed in the lawsuit that the Respondus Monitor proctoring tool captures facial-recognition data, eye-monitoring data and other biometric information without students’ consent in violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act.
DePaul is exempt from BIPA under provisions specifying that it doesn’t apply to financial institutes subject to Title V of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, Judge Robert W. Gettleman of the US District Court for ...
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