In re Facebook Biometric Information Privacy Litigation

*1158ORDER RE MOTION TO DISMISS AND SUMMARY JUDGMENT

JAMES DONATO, United States District Judge

In this putative class action under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, 740 Ill. Comp. Stat. 14/1 et seq. (“BIPA”), the named plaintiffs allege that defendant Facebook, Inc. (“Facebook”) unlawfully collected and stored biometric data derived from their faces. Although the case is brought by Illinois residents under Illinois law, it is before this Court because the parties agreed to transfer it here from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

In the motions…