Delgado
Delgado v. Meta Platforms, Inc.
Opinion
trial_court Opinion
1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 NATALIE DELGADO, Case No. 23-cv-04181-SI
8 Plaintiff,
ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND
9 v. DENYING IN PART MOTION TO
DISMISS
10 META PLATFORMS, INC., Re: Dkt. No. 35 11 Defendant.
12 13 Defendant Meta Platforms, Inc. (“Meta”) moves to dismiss the putative class action 14 complaint in this case. The matter came on for hearing on February 23, 2024. For the reasons set 15 forth below, the Court GRANTS IN PART and DENIES IN PART the motion to dismiss. 16 17 BACKGROUND 18 “Illinois’s Biometric Information Privacy Act, familiarly known as BIPA, provides robust 19 protections for the biometric information of Illinois residents. See 740 ILCS 14/1 et seq. It does so 20 by regulating the collection, retention, disclosure, and destruction of biometric identifiers or 21 information—for example, retinal scans, fingerprints, or facial geometry.” Thornley v. Clearview 22 AI, Inc., 984 F.3d 1241, 1242 (7th Cir. 2021). …