Coinbase faces lawsuit over alleged breaches of Illinois biometric privacy law
A group of Illinois Coinbase users has filed an in progress against the Crypto Exchange, alleging that its identity checks violate the law on the confidentiality of the biometric state information (BIPA).
The complainants Scott Bernstein, Gina Greeder and James Lonergan said in the May 13 trial deposited before a federal court that the “fat collection” of Coinbase Facaps for his client requirements violates the Bipa, as they were not informed.
The group said that Coinbase had not informed the writing users of the collection, storage or sharing of their biometric data and the objective and retention calendar for their data.
“Coinbase does not publicly provide retention calendar or directives to permanently destroy the biometric identifiers of the applicants specified by BIPA,” they said.
The complaint said that Coinbase forces users to check their identity by downloading a photo identifier issued by the government and a selfie, which is then sent to third -party facial recognition software to scan and extract facial geometry.
This process captures biometric identifiers without the enlightened written consent of users, who, according to the prosecution, violates the BIPA.
In addition, the group said that Coinbase had violated the law by sharing biometric data without the consent of users to third -party verification suppliers such as Jumio, Onfido, Au10tix and Solaris.
“Coinbase” obtains biometric data in violation of [BIPA] Because it explicitly ordered the third -party verification suppliers to use its software to check and authenticate users, including complainants, and its software does it by collecting biometric data, ”says the complaint.
The group said that more than 10,000 people had applied for arbitration on these questions with the American Arbitration Association, that Coinbase refused to pay the required arbitration fees, which made them reject.
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The trial brings three allegations of violation of the laws on the biometric confidentiality of the State and one for the fraud of consumers under the law on the practices of fraud and fraud to consumers and the deceptive commercial practices of Illinois.
The group requests a reparation of $ 5,000 per deliberate or reckless violation found, $ 1,000 per violation per negligence found, as well as emergency and dispute costs.
Coinbase has also recently been struck at least six prosecution during disclosure of May 15 that some of its customer support officers were united to disclose user data.
Previous association of BIPA violation sent to arbitration
In May 2023, a group of Coinbase users continued the exchange under similar accusations of BIPA violations.
A judge later made it possible that the trial stops pending arbitration and rejected the trial without prejudice on February 3 after Coinbase and the user group agreed to remove the action.
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