![]() The customers stress that the face scans collected by Apple constitute biometric identifiers, as defined by the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act - identifiers specific to a person’s physical identity. The facial recognition technology then reportedly “extracts biometric identifiers” by creating a scan of face geometry from the photographs, and creates a list of frequently found faces to the People album in the Photos app. They allege that the facial recognition technology scans a user’s photo library for faces. Allegedly, this operating system included the Photos app, which comes pre-installed on Apple devices.Īccording to the customers, the Apple Photos app collects biometric information through its facial recognition feature. The Apple customers explain that Apple has been collecting Biometric Data automatically though its iPhones since June 13, 2016, when the iOS Version 10 was released. ![]() They also stress that the company makes a practice of collecting this information not just from Apple users, but from all individuals, including minors. The Apple iPhone class action lawsuit claims that Apple’s collection of this data violates the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act because it is done without informing customers and obtaining their consent.
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