United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit ____________________ No. 20-3249 MELISSA THORNLEY, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. CLEARVIEW AI, INC., Defendant-Appellant. ____________________

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division. No. 20-cv-3843 — Sharon Johnson Coleman, Judge. ____________________

ARGUED JANUARY 4, 2021 — DECIDED JANUARY 14, 2021 ____________________

Before EASTERBROOK, WOOD, and HAMILTON, Circuit Judges. WOOD, Circuit Judge. Illinois’s Biometric Information Pri- vacy Act, familiarly known as BIPA, provides robust protec- tions for the biometric information of Illinois residents. See 740 ILCS 14/1 et seq. It does so by regulating the collection, retention, disclosure, and destruction of biometric identifiers or information—for example, retinal scans, fingerprints, or fa- cial geometry. In recent years, the use of biometric data has