Federal appeals court judges lobbed tough questions Wednesday at an attorney for a consumer attempting to revive her biometric privacy lawsuit against
Kathleen DeGrasse’s attorney, Daniel A. Edelman of Edelman Combs Latturner & Goodwin LLC, told the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit during oral argument that Hyundai violated Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act because the company didn’t inform buyers that the system collected their biometric data or obtain their informed consent.
The proposed class action concerns an open question under BIPA: whether a data collector is ...