The Illinois Supreme Court will hear a case to determine whether Six Flags Entertainment violated the state's Biometric Information Privacy Act, Bloomberg Law reports. The plaintiff alleges Six Flags gathered her 14-year-old son's thumbprint without her consent when he entered the amusement park in Gurnee, Illinois. An Illinois appeals court ruled last December the plaintiff did not have standing to sue due to her failure to show any form of injury as a result of the biometric collection. “If the court upholds the principle that a technical violation does not result in an aggrieved person, I think it will knock out a number of cases,” Proskauer Rose Partner Jeffrey Neuburger said. “Creative plaintiff lawyers will do what they can to survive, but I think it would be fatal for many of those cases.”
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