A lawsuit in Illinois accuses Harrah’s Casino in Joliet of violating the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act. The property possesses facial recognition scans and identifying information of its customers “without creating and following a written policy, made available to the public.”

The lawsuit asks a county judge to award liquidated or actual monetary damages, whichever is higher “for each violation of the Biometric Information Privacy Act.”

“Defendants use facial recognition technology with their video security cameras at their Illinois casinos,” the suit explains. “Defendants’ facial recognition technology identifies a person by scanning the geometry of a person’s facial features and comparing that scan against databases of stored facial geometry templates.”

For more on the use of facial recognition used at Harrah’s Casino, visit Patch.com