In the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, plaintiffs Robert Jiles and Kerry Lott have filed a class action lawsuit against Dart X, Inc. The case number is 2024CH03118 and was filed on April 11, 2024. The lawsuit revolves around the alleged violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) by Dart X, Inc.
The plaintiffs, both past and present employees of Dart X, Inc., claim that they were subjected to unlawful biometric scanning and storage practices by the defendant. They argue that their personalized biometric identifiers were collected without proper notification or consent, which is in violation of BIPA.
Furthermore, they assert that they were not informed about where their biometrics are being stored, how long the data will be kept for, and what might happen to this information. This lack of transparency and failure to obtain written consent are seen as breaches of BIPA's directives.
Jiles and Lott are seeking statutory damages and other equitable relief under BIPA for themselves and other similarly affected individuals. They argue that if Dart X insists on collecting and storing workers' biometrics, it must comply with all aspects of BIPA including notifying workers about the practice, obtaining written consent from them, maintaining their data securely, and providing a publicly available disclosure about how the data will be handled and destroyed.