Apple largely loses bid to defeat biometric privacy claims in Illinois over Photos app
( October 8, 2026, 19:14 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Apple largely failed in its bid to have a federal judge throw out claims that the iPhone's Photos App violated the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). In an order unsealed Thursday in East St. Louis, Illinois, US District Judge Nancy Rosenstengel concluded that "a reasonable jury could find that Apple's technology incorporates scans of face geometry, as those terms are ordinarily understood, to create faceprints." However, Rosenstengel accepted Apple's argument that cropped facial images were not biometric identifiers under BIPA because they do not themselves contain sufficient facial-geometry data to identify someone.See attached document....
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