Françoise Djoukeng

Fran Djoukeng is an associate in the Palo Alto office where she practices in the firm’s Corporate Practice Group. She focuses on corporate governance and emerging companies.

Previously, she clerked for the Honorable Ryan D. Nelson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and for the Honorable Percy Anderson of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

The District Court for the Northern District of Illinois recently granted in part a motion to dismiss a putative class action complaint asserting wiretapping, Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”), and consumer protection claims relating to their eufy home security cameras and video doorbells (the “Eufy Products”).  See Sloan, et al. v. Anker Innovations Ltd., No. 22-CV-7174 (N.D. Ill. Jan. 9, 2024).  Plaintiffs contend in their complaint that the Eufy Products applied a facial recognition program to differentiate images of known and unknown individuals within home security services and purportedly misrepresented data storage and encryption practices for the Eufy Products.Continue Reading Illinois Federal Court Partially Dismisses Wiretapping, BIPA Claims Involving Home Security Products