Coinbase faces a lawsuit for alleged violations of the biometric privacy law in Illinois

A group of Coinbase users from Illinois filed a lawsuit against encryption exchange, claiming that its identity tests violate the BIPA vital information law (BIPA).

Prosecutors, Scott Bernstein, Jena Greider and James Longan, claimed on May 13 suit It was submitted in a federal court that “sentence collection” from coinbase from FacePRINTS to find out your customer requirements violate BIPA, as it has not been notified.

Say the group Coinbase He failed to notify users in writing to collect, store or share their biometric data, purpose schedule and keep their data.

“Coinbase publicly does not publicly provide a schedule or guidance to maintain the destruction of the vital identifiers of the prosecutors permanently as specified by the BIPA,” they claimed.

Al -Shakawi said that Coinbase requires users to check their identity by downloading the image identifier of the government and a personal photo, which is then sent to the facial recognition program from a third party to survey and extract facial engineering.

This process picks up biological measurements without an informed written approval for users, which claims the lawsuit violates BIPA.

In addition, the group Coinbase claimed the violation of the law by sharing biometric data without users’s approval of third -party verification sellers such as Jumio, ONFIDO, AU10TIX and Solaris.

“Coinbase” gets biometric data in violation [BIPA] Since it explicitly directed the third -party verification providers to use its program to verify users and their authentication, including the prosecutors, and his program does this by collecting biometric data. “

The group claimed that more than 10,000 people have submitted arbitration demands on these issues with the American Arbitration Association, which was claimed to have refused to pay the required arbitration fees, causing them to be rejected.

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The lawsuit shall submit three allegations of violating the laws of governmental privacy and one to defraud the consumer under the Illinois fraud law and deceptive business practices.

The group seeks to obtain a reduction of $ 5,000 per deliberate or reckless violation, 1000 dollars have been found for each neglected violation, along with relief and gossip.

Coinbase was also hit with at least six claims during the disclosure of May 15 that some customer support agents It was bribed for the leakage User data.

The previous BIPA violation lawsuit was sent to the arbitration

In May 2023, a group of Coinbase users A lawsuit against the stock exchange Under accusations similar to BIPA violations.

Later judge Permitted This lawsuit is to stop the arbitration and rejected the lawsuit without bias on February 3 after Coinbase and the user group agreed to drop the procedure.

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