CHICAGO — A man has filed a class action lawsuit against educational testing center Pearson Education Inc., citing alleged invasion of privacy.
Lead plaintiff Kenneth Hoffman filed a complaint July 9 in Cook County Circuit Court, claiming Pearson violated the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act.
According to the complaint, Hoffman was allegedly tested at a facility owned and operated by the defendant. As part of those tests, the plaintiff said his finger and palm veins were scanned by biometric devices, which captured, collected and stored the data.
However, Hoffman claims he and the other class members were not informed that their biometric information was being collected and did not consent to any transmission of their information to third parties.
The plaintiff requests a trial by jury and seeks statutory damages, attorneys' fees, costs, pre-judgment and post-judgment interest and other relief the court deems just. He is represented by William Kingston and Jad Sheikali of McGuire Law PC in Chicago.
Circuit Court of Cook County case number 18-CH-08527