Method Products Skirts Two Biometrics Claims, Still Faces One

Method Products successfully trimmed a biometric privacy lawsuit brought by a former employee who claims that the plant-based products company collected his fingerprint data without his permission, after an Illinois federal judge dismissed two of three claims.

Steven Horn brought the proposed class action against Method alleging that it violated Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act when it didn’t obtain his written permission to collect and store his biometric data, and didn’t provide a publicly available retention and destruction schedule.

Judge Sara L. Ellis of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois dismissed Horn’s claim that Method failed ...