WorkEasy’s $1.6 Million Fingerprint Privacy Deal Gets First Nod

WorkEasy Software LLC will pay $1,685,000 over five years to resolve an Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act class action brought by a client’s employee, under a settlement preliminarily approved by a federal court.

Class representative Maria Tapia-Rendon sued over her workplace’s use of WorkEasy biometric timeclocks that generate templates of workers’ fingerprints. She alleged WorkEasy collected her data without sufficient consent, retained her information when it was no longer necessary to do so, and failed to comply with industry standards on securing biometrics.

The settlement covers 21,915 class members who used a cloud-based WorkEasy biometric device after June 2016, and ...