Joyce E. Cutler reports:
A lawsuit accusing Google LLC of violating the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act by accessing images collected and packaged by two other companies got a lukewarm reception from a federal judge in Silicon Valley.
Judge Beth Labson Freeman with the US District Court for the Northern District of California noted Thursday that the plaintiffs have already failed in three other cases advance their allegations that tech companies violated the Illinois privacy law after the individuals uploaded photographs of their faces to the Flicker photo-sharing site that were then used to improve facial recognition processes.
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