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Intercontinental Hotels latest large employer tagged with class action over employee fingerprint use

By Jonathan Bilyk | Thursday, Jul 6, 2017 @ 6:00am

The owners of the Intercontinental Hotel Group, which includes the Intercontinental, Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza and Kimpton Hotels brands, among others, have become the latest major Illinois employer to come under the sights of plaintiff employees who claim the business has wrongly collected and used employees’ fingerprints and other “biometric” data, in violation of a state privacy law.