Chicago Cubs, Security Partners Slammed With Wrigley Field Biometric Privacy Violation Claims

An Illinois man claims the Chicago Cubs violated the state’s Biometric Info Privateness Act (BIPA) by gathering facial recognition info and biometric identifiers from the friends who attend Cubs video games at Wrigley Subject. The plaintiff filed the class-action grievance within the U.S. District Court docket for the Northern District of Illinois Monday towards the Cubs and their contracted safety companies, Blue Star Safety and Safety Companies Holdings, doing enterprise as Protos Safety, in search of $5,000 per BIPA violation underneath the statute.