Fact · Voice privacy and security
300000US dollars
In January 2023, an Illinois state court gave preliminary approval to a settlement of nearly $300,000 in a class action against Whole Foods, which the plaintiffs said collected warehouse workers' voiceprints through headsets under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act.
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In the source's own words
“a preliminary approval order for a settlement of nearly $300,000 in a class action lawsuit against Whole Foods”
Whole Foods Settles BIPA Voiceprint Class Action, Hunton Andrews Kurth Privacy and Cybersecurity, NatLawReview (republished from the Hunton Andrews Kurth Privacy and Cybersecurity Law Blog), 2023, Opening paragraph.
Open the original- What it measures
- The plaintiffs said that Whole Foods required distribution-center workers to use headsets that collected and used their voiceprints, without a written policy on retention and without consent. The case was heard in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, Chancery Division.
- What it does not show
- A preliminary approval order, not a final payment. The amount is stated only as nearly $300,000, and the company's statement is not in the source. Settlements usually admit no wrongdoing, and the source reports allegations.
In the data
A row of Voice Recording Privacy Settlements and Fines, as Whole Foods BIPA 2023: 0.3 million US dollars.
- Company
- Whole Foods
- Service
- Headsets used by distribution-center workers
- Kind
- Class action settlement
- Authority or court
- Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois
- What it was about
- Voiceprints and biometrics
- Country
- United States
- Year
- 2023
- Note
- The source says nearly $300,000, which is entered as 0.3 million US dollars. The source gives no exact sum, so the figure is an approximation.