Lawsuit Dropped
As we speculated, on private property that you voluntarily enter, your options are limited:
The Chicago Cubs have apparently emerged unscathed from two lawsuits that accused the team and its security contractors of secretly collecting facial data from fans at Wrigley Field. Attorneys representing plaintiffs in both of the recently filed cases have abruptly withdrawn the lawsuits just weeks after filing their original complaints.
In federal court, attorneys notified the judge last week that they were voluntarily dismissing their case against the Cubs, Blue Star Security, and Connecticut-based Protos Security. A similar filing followed on Wednesday in the Circuit Court of Cook County, ending a state-level complaint that mirrored the federal case.
Neither filing offered any reasons for the sudden reversal. Both actions had been filed in September and quickly gained national attention for accusing one of Major League Baseball’s most storied franchises of violating Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), a law that carries steep financial penalties for the unauthorized collection of biometric data. Individuals claiming BIPA violations can seek damages of $1,000 for each negligent violation or $5,000 for each reckless one, with every unauthorized scan counting as a separate infraction.
Has anyone been to any of the airports lately? We have, and guess what's everywhere?
- facial recognition cameras
You can see some of them, but it's the ones you don't see that are truly impressive. It's not just overhead, but eye-level and waist-level looking up. Thousands of cameras, all recording 24/7/365. The data storage fees are astronomical (pretty much federally funded.)
We still have a few friends who work at the airports and they tell us that the moment you set foot onto airport property, TSA can track you continuously via camera and facial recognition software, from entry point until boarding, from exiting the plane through baggage claim, customs, all the way to parking, cabs or public transportation.
And that's the government. Casinos do it. No reason to think that any venue that you voluntarily pay to enter for entertainment wouldn't be doing it.
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
31 Comments:
except it's not really private property if it's open to the public...
Facebook got their tit in a wringer in il br bipa... no reason why the cubs couldn't either... someone got paid
All part of the plan....
Lots of data, have an acquaintance in the data center field, this corruption filled state is wide open to building these monstrous buildings, we were talking and they need minimum 400,000 gallons of water per day and they need massive amounts of electricity ( notice your bills rapidly increasing to pay for these ai buildings?). Do a little research they are also building huge water pipes from Lake Michigan far north and west as the wells will run dry, very sneaky use of fresh water. Look at the U.S. Steel plant data centers many jobs to build few permanent jobs, but the pos governor and mayors obviously got their envelopes! These centers will take acres and acres of land, they are being extremely secretive as again democrat politicians sell out the people!
Hoping to get a settlement, but then realizing the court cost of going to trial. Scum of the earth lawyers
This is very true. Passengers don’t even need physical boarding pass anymore. Once their face is scanned at the TSA checkpoint and their ID is scanned the system alerts the agents they have a valid boarding pass and are allowed to enter.
But don’t tell Big Daddy Spiro that ! “He doesn’t want to hear it “!! Just like he doesn’t want to hear how bad the manpower shortage is on 3rd watch he had to actually experience it to acknowledge it. And guess how he did that ?! Like every other condescending arrogant fuckin jagoff boss does he punishes everyone ! No wrong doing no one fucking off he just can’t accept he decimated afternoons and looked like a complete ass. So his response … fuck with the troops and their money (through ot) by changing hours. Half of second watch can’t even work ot anymore because of personal obligations don’t coincide with the new hours. But don’t worry Big Daddy we all have our parking permits displayed. Arrogant prick
Danger is no stranger to a Blue Star Ranger.
Do the Sox do it? Can they trace the outfield shooter???
Or don’t they want to???
It’s private because it is owned by a person or company versus the street, sidewalk or park which is government maintained and owned.
Wrong. Only open to the “public” if they allow you entry. So, not really “open to the public” is it?
What? Are you slow son?
Six Flags got hit with a multi-million settlement for taking fingerprints. How is this different?
Read the fine print on the back of the ticket you PURCHASED. You'll need a magnifying glass tho!
Does anyone know if there is something that can defeat this? A hat? Glasses? Some kind of jammer?
With the number of people that show up to the games, they could pose for Polaroids
Years ago, on a flight to pre-moslem England, I sat next to a nice lady from Wales. Somehow the subject of London cameras came up. She told me "By the time you clear the plane "they" might not know who you are, but "they" will know you're not on a list..."
Cameras are everywhere in the public space, some government and many private property but tapped into by the government. In my Southy Suburb, every entrance road is monitored by license plate readers. The information is immediately read so the police know you are entering the town and your license plates are expired or suspended as is your driver's license. This is the future.
Do they still sell those eye glasses with the nose and mustache?
who covered that accidental discharge up? whoever it was should be fired? local news media backed off that story. wasn't one of the victims employed by cps?
Gotta pay to get in. Private property
Yes it is.
Digital currency. If you don’t “obey” the commies your currency will be frozen.
Don’t think so? Ask the Canadian truckers protesting the poison C19 bio-weapon “vaccine.”
Palantir is right in the center of the facial recognition surveillance state that is being built.
That’s why you had to get a “real ID” to fly. Or use your passport.
You have NO freedom. You are tracked 24/7 by your “smartphone” and now the facial recognition will be system is being rolled out using all available municipal, county, and state infrastructure already in place.
What’s the purpose in the first place?
Open to the public?? They don’t sell tickets anymore and is owned by Ricketts why would you think it’s a public place
They Live!
Call Mrs. Hack-en-da-puss.
Is Flipper a dolphin or a porpoise?
A settlement is way different than a verdict.
That embarrassed to be caught going to a cubs game?
Yeah stay the fuck home
Those lawyers got paid big time to drop the lawsuits
A woman took some kids (hers and some friends') to an event at Madison Square Garden, and was barred from entry after her face was recognized. She was a lawyer, and other attorneys in her firm were representing plaintiffs in a suit against MSG's parent company.
Just A Civilian (who knows what "panopticon" means)
The lawsuit was dropped because the appropriate individuals got their envelope. Know what I mean?
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