EDWARDSVILLE — A Bethalto man filed a class action against Impact Fulfillment Services and IFS Holdings over their alleged collection and storage of employee fingerprint scans.
Bradley Taylor, individually and as the representative of a class of similarly situated persons, filed a complaint July 30 in the Madison County Circuit Court against Impact Fulfillment Services and IFS Holdings LLC, alleging violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA).
According to the complaint, Taylor worked for the defendants at their Edwardsville facility. He alleges he and other employees were required to give a fingerprint or "fingerscan" as part of the companies' payroll system.
Taylor claims employees were not given a "publicly-available" schedule of how their biometric information would be retained or destroyed. He also claims he did not give written permission for the "collection, storage, use, sale, lease, dissemination, disclosure, redisclosure or trade" of his biometric information. Taylor alleges in the suit that he has no knowledge of what happened to his biometric information after leaving the company and that the defendants' collection and capturing of the fingerprint scans is a reckless violation of BIPA.
Taylor also alleges he and other employees are entitled to disclosure if any third-party has their biometric information and whether it has been destroyed.
The plaintiffs seek monetary relief of $1,000 for each biometric "identifier" that was collected and $5,000 if the information was collected "intentionally or recklessly." He also seeks court costs and all other just relief.
Taylor is represented by Phillip Bock, Tod Lewis and Molly Stemper of Bock, Hatch, Lewis & Oppenheim LLC in Chicago and Paul Marks of Sivia Business & Legal Services PC in Edwardsville.
Madison County Circuit Court case number 20-L-1077