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Company: Biomat USA, Inc.
Penalty: $5,583,333
Year: 2023
Date: September 19, 2023
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: privacy violation
Violation Description: Three blood banks agreed to pay a total of $16.75 million to settle litigation alleging they violated the Illinois biometric privacy law by collecting fingerprint data from blood donors without obtaining informed consent. Court documents did not specify how much each organization would pay. Here we assume they paid equal shares of the total.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: private litigation
Court: Northern District of Illinois
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Case ID: 1:20-cv-04241
Case Name: Brian R. Vaughan v. Biomat USA, Inc. et al
Private Lawsuit Resolution Type: settlement
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