A group of six Illinois journalists, podcasters, and voice actors, including actors who narrate audiobooks, have filed nine separate state lawsuits against Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA, ElevenLabs, Adobe, and Samsung for violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), which protects individuals’ voice footprints. The class includes: Lindsay Dorcus (narrator for over 200 audiobooks for Penguin Random House, Hachette, Disney, and other publishers); Carol Marin (CBS News, 60 Minutes, Chicago Tonight); Phil Rogers (NBC Chicago, WBBM); Robin Amer (formerly of The Washington Post, USA Today‘s The City podcast, and others); and more. The suits allege that the companies scraped the voices of the actors from the internet […]
