A former Pepsi distribution warehouse worker in Illinois filed a federal class-action lawsuit in New York alleging the company collected voice prints of employees without consent and in violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, Top Class Actions reports. Meanwhile, ByteDance was sued in an Illinois BIPA class-action lawsuit, which alleged its CapCut video-editing app collected face scans, voice prints and user location data, without consent, Engadget reports.
Biometric class-actions filed against Pepsi, ByteDance
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