IBM Evading Discovery in Biometric Privacy Suit, Plaintiffs Say (1)

April 20, 2022, 5:06 PM UTCUpdated: April 20, 2022, 5:39 PM UTC

Consumers alleging that International Business Machines Corp. used their faces without consent in artificial intelligence bias research told an Illinois federal court the company isn’t meeting its discovery obligations in their case.

The court should require IBM to continue its search of a hard drive it hasn’t yet destroyed, attorneys representing the plaintiffs in a suit over IBM’s use of a facial scan data set wrote in a motion to compel filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. They also asked the court to order IBM to provide information related to its commercial face ...

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