Supply Network Inc. and a former Illinois employee reached a binding settlement agreement to resolve state biometric privacy claims over use of a time clock that collected staff members’ fingerprint and hand-geometry data without their consent, court records showed.
Supply Network, which does business as Viking SupplyNet, will submit a draft settlement agreement to former delivery driver Jeffrey Schwartz by March 14, according to a Tuesday entry in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois docket.
Schwartz filed a September 2023 complaint alleging the fire sprinkler system components distributor violated the Illinois Biometric Privacy Act. He accused ...
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