( November 10, 2026, 8:23 AM EST) -- CHICAGO — A consumer filed a putative class action against a robotics company in an Illinois state court, alleging that its sidewalk delivery robots violate the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) by scanning customers’ facial and hand geometry without notice or consent, retaining the data without a publicly available retention and destruction policy and sharing it with third parties, including OpenAI, to train artificial intelligence models....