On July 25, 2025, a federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois approved a $4.25 million settlement between class action plaintiffs and San Diego-based technology company, Lytx, Inc. to resolve allegations that the company collected truck drivers’ biometric identifiers and information without providing adequate notice or consent in violation of the Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”).
According to the complaint, Lytx’s premier technology provided transportation companies with “constant AI surveillance” of truck drivers using AI-powered cameras located inside of the truck’s cab that scanned the driver’s face geometry in an effort to identify the driver’s actions and detect distracted driving. The plaintiffs claimed that Lytx violated BIPA by failing to establish a publicly available retention schedule and guidelines for the destruction of the biometric data; failing to inform truck drivers of the purpose and amount of time that their biometrics would be used or stored; and failing to obtain their written consent – allegations that Lytx denied.
According to the Final Approval Order, the class includes any individual who, while present in the State of Illinois, operated a vehicle equipped with a “Lytx DriveCam Event Recorder” that used machine vision and artificial intelligence to predict distracted driving behaviors between October 12, 2016 and January 1, 2025. In approving the settlement, the Court found that the relief provided was “fair, reasonable, adequate and in the best interests of the Settlement Class Members” by providing them with “meaningful monetary benefits” that were not disproportionate to the $1.4 million in attorneys’ fees and roughly $63,000 in out-of-pocket litigation expenses sought by the Class Counsel. As a result of the settlement, the case was also dismissed with prejudice.
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