Apple looks for quick appeal in US biometric privacy case over Photos app
( October 20, 2026, 22:31 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Apple asked a US federal judge to allow it to immediately appeal, or alternatively for the judge to reconsider, an order that maintained claims that the iPhone's Photos App violated the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, saying that there is good reason to think the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit would disagree on whether the BIPA applies to data that cannot be accessed due to encryption. Apple said that it should not have to wait for appellate review until after a trial seeking billions in damages, and the question presented has sweeping implications for the use of end-to-end encryption.See attached file. ...
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