In May, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California denied a motion to dismiss a claim against Facebook. The plaintiffs alleged the platform's online photo-tagging feature violated the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act. Although the case was transferred from Illinois to California, the California court allowed the claim to proceed on grounds that "Illinois will suffer a complete negation of its biometric privacy protections for its citizens if California law is applied."
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