Lytx Lawsuit: $4.25M BIPA Settlement and Driver Payouts

The Lytx lawsuit settlement resolved a class action accusing Lytx, Inc. of scanning truck drivers’ faces through its DriveCam system without the written consent required by Illinois law. A federal judge in the Southern District of Illinois gave final approval to the $4.25 million deal on July 25, 2025, covering roughly 85,000 drivers whose data was captured between October 12, 2016 and January 1, 2025.¹ Payments have already gone out.²

Who Was Eligible

The class covered anyone who drove a vehicle equipped with a Lytx DriveCam Event Recorder while in Illinois, where the “Machine Vision + Artificial Intelligence” (MV+AI) feature was used to predict distracted driving, at any point from October 12, 2016 through January 1, 2025.²

Class counsel estimated about 85,000 drivers fit that description: roughly 25,000 Illinois residents and 60,000 out-of-state residents who drove through Illinois in a DriveCam-equipped truck.¹

How Much Drivers Received

The $4.25 million fund was non-reversionary, meaning none of it could go back to Lytx. It was split in half between two sub-classes, with 50% set aside for Illinois residents and 50% for non-Illinois residents. Judge Nancy J. Rosenstengel structured the allocation this way to address a “potential extraterritoriality argument” about whether Illinois’s biometric privacy law reaches drivers who live elsewhere.¹

After deductions, individual drivers received:

Approximately $631 for Illinois residents
Approximately $845 for non-Illinois residents³

The deductions from the gross fund included about $1.42 million in attorneys’ fees (roughly one-third of the total), approximately $63,000 in litigation expenses, and $10,000 service awards to each of the three named plaintiffs, Joshua Lewis, Nathaniel Timmons, and James Cavanaugh.⁴⁵ Each remaining share was calculated pro rata based on the number of participating class members. Drivers could receive their payments by check, Venmo, Zelle, or PayPal.⁶

What Lytx Was Accused Of

The complaint focused on the MV+AI feature of Lytx’s in-cab DriveCam. According to the drivers, the camera scanned each person’s facial geometry and ran that data through algorithms designed to flag distracted driving behaviors like texting, eating, or using a phone.⁷

The Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) treats facial geometry as a “biometric identifier” and requires companies to do specific things before collecting it. The drivers alleged Lytx violated three parts of the statute:

Section 15(a), by failing to publish a retention and destruction schedule for biometric data
Section 15(b), by failing to give drivers written notice and obtain written consent before capturing their facial geometry
Section 15(c), by profiting from biometric information in ways the statute prohibits

Judge Rosenstengel rejected an early defense argument that drivers had to prove the facial data could actually identify individual people, ruling that BIPA applies based on the type of data collected.¹

Under BIPA, prevailing plaintiffs can recover $1,000 for each negligent violation or $5,000 for each intentional or reckless violation, plus attorneys’ fees.⁸

Lytx’s Position

Lytx denied all allegations and settled without admitting wrongdoing or liability. The company’s position was that BIPA does not apply to its technology at all. In its public statement, Lytx said the MV+AI system “detects driving behaviors, not the identity of a driver,” and that raw image data used to make a distraction prediction never leaves the device’s memory and is “immediately and permanently destroyed” after the prediction is generated. Only the prediction result and a timestamp are retained.⁹

A Lytx spokesperson described the litigation as an “immense and costly distraction” and said the company settled to keep its focus on customers.¹⁰

Can You Still File a Claim

No. The claim period has closed, and as of mid-2026 all settlement award payments have been disbursed.² No class members objected to the deal and no one opted out.¹¹ If you believe you were a class member and did not receive a payment, the settlement administrator’s site at LytxSettlement.com remains the correct point of contact.⁶

Similar Cases Against Other Dashcam Makers

If you drove in Illinois for a fleet that used a different in-cab camera system, the Lytx case is not the only one. Samsara, another fleet camera manufacturer, faced a nearly identical BIPA class action brought by a truck driver over facial scanning. That case settled for $3.95 million in August 2025.¹² Lytx has acknowledged that BIPA suits have been filed against multiple in-vehicle technology providers and their trucking customers.⁹

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