A company that specializes in personalizing gifts and other items violated Illinois’ biometric privacy law when it collected and stored workers’ fingerprint scans, two former employees alleged in a complaint filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois.
PersonalizationMall.com LLC, owned by Bed Bath & Beyond Inc., scanned and stored fingerprint data from workers clocking in and out of work, according to the Nov. 21 putative class action. Plaintiffs LaTonia Williams and Dequrvia Williams, who worked at a company warehouse in 2017 and 2018, allege they weren’t informed in writing that the company was capturing, collecting, storing or ...
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