Second Court: Video Game Publisher Did Not Violate Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act

The Second U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a district court’s ruling that a pair of video game players lacked standing (under Article III of the U.S. Constitution) to bring a claim that a game developer violated the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) in its handling of data collected in a face scan for use as an individualized avatar in the game in question. In so ruling, it found that none of the alleged procedural violations of BIPA raised a material risk of harm t