The iPhone Photos app has become the target of a $32.5 billion class-action lawsuit in Illinois, over claims that biometric data is collected from images without informed consent. However, a class action lawsuit claims that Apple is violating user privacy by collecting biometric data in a completely different part of the ecosystem. The lawsuit accuses Apple of collecting biometric data without user consent in the Photos app, reports The Times. This data is assumed to be biometric data, and a violation of Illinois law. An Illinois privacy actThe law at the center of the suit is the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, a state law that came into force in 2008.