The B.C. Court of Appeal has resurrected a man’s attempt to bring a class-action lawsuit against Google for allegedly breaching user privacy by using facial recognition technology to collect and store biometric data.
The appeal says Yeremia Situmorang can head back to B.C. Supreme Court in his bid to certify a class action against the technology giant.
In a notice of civil claim, Situmorang said he used Android phones to snap photos of himself and others, including his children, which were automatically uploaded to Google Photos, the tech giant’s photo sharing and storage service. He said he did not give the company consent to extract,
