New papers were filed Friday in the case of an Illinois resident suing Shutterfly after his “faceprint” was added to its database without his knowledge. Plaintiff Robert Norberg is arguing that the move was illegal under the Illinois Biometric Privacy Law, MediaPost reports. Shutterfly moved to dismiss earlier this summer, saying the 2008 statute doesn’t regulate faceprints. However, "(b)y Defendants’ logic, nothing would stop them from amassing a tremendous, Orwellian electronic database of face scans with no permission whatsoever so long as the database were derived from photographs," Norberg's team wrote in court filings. "And indeed, that appears to be exactly what they are doing."
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