A federal jury in Chicago has ordered one of the nation's largest railroads to pay nearly a quarter of a billion dollars to thousands of truck drivers for violating their privacy rights.
has ordered one of the nation's largest railroads to pay nearly a quarter of a billion dollars to thousands of truck drivers for violating their privacy rights."All I ever wanted was justice for the over 45,000 truck drivers and myself," said Richard Rogers, one of 45,600 truck drivers who were part of the class action lawsuit.
Under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, passed in 2008, companies must get written permission before obtaining biometric records like fingerprints, iris scans and face scans.The class action lawsuit says truck drivers were required to scan their fingerprints to enter any of BNSF's four Chicago area facilities, but they weren't telling people they were going to maintain it in a database.
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