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U.S. Judge Dismisses Suit Versus Google Over Facial Recognition

posted by janrinok on Sunday March 03 2019, @04:13PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-harm,-no-foul dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for Runaway1956__

A lawsuit filed against Google by consumers who claimed the search engine's photo sharing and storage service violated their privacy was dismissed on Saturday by a U.S. judge who cited a lack of "concrete injuries."

U.S. District Judge Edmond Chang in Chicago granted a Google motion for summary judgment, saying the court lacked "subject matter jurisdiction because plaintiffs have not suffered concrete injuries."

The suit, filed in March 2016, alleged Alphabet Inc's Google violated Illinois state law by collecting and storing biometric data from people's photographs using facial recognition software without their permission through its Google Photos service.

[...] Google had argued in court documents that the plaintiffs were not entitled to money or injunctive relief because they had suffered no harm. The case is Rivera v Google, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, No. 16-02714.

Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-lawsuit-illinois/u-s-judge-dismisses-suit-versus-google-over-facial-recognition-software-idUSKCN1OT001

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 04 2019, @02:17AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 04 2019, @02:17AM (#809656)

    Conducting mass surveillance on the populace is damage.