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Illinois lawsuits against delivery robot providers
Overview
Two California-based delivery robot providers, Coco Robotics and Serve Robotics, are facing class-action lawsuits in Illinois for allegedly violating the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA).
The legal actions, filed in Cook County, claim that the companies’ autonomous systems use cameras and LiDAR technology to scan the faces, heads, and hands of pedestrians and customers without obtaining prior written consent. Plaintiffs allege that these biometric measurements are captured in real time and transmitted to human operators for monitoring and control.
Furthermore, the lawsuits contend that the companies retain this raw sensor and video data to train both proprietary and external artificial intelligence models. While the plaintiffs seek to test the application of BIPA to autonomous systems in public spaces, both Coco Robotics and Serve Robotics dispute the allegations.
Entities
Chicago · Barry Schain · Serve Robotics · Coco Robotics · Mitchell Breidinger
Timeline
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[TECHNOLOGY] 9 sourcesChicago customers sue Coco Robotics and Serve Robotics over biometric data
Two class-action lawsuits have been filed in Chicago against Coco Robotics and Serve Robotics, alleging the companies' delivery robots collected customers' facial and hand biometric data without consent.
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[TECHNOLOGY] 3 sourcesDelivery robot providers face lawsuits over biometric data scanning in Illinois
Two delivery robot companies face lawsuits in Illinois for allegedly scanning pedestrians' biometric data in Chicago without consent to train AI models.
Sources
ad-hoc-news.de · borncity.com · cnet.com · desdeabajo.info · geekspin.co · independent.co.uk · it-boltwise.de · malwarebytes.org · me.mashable.com · newsday.com · sofx.com · winnipegfreepress.com