New court papers filed in a biometric privacy case involving social media network Snapchat show the firm has asked a federal judge to send a biometrics-privacy lawsuit against the company to arbitration.The papers state that the people who sued, Illinois residents Jose Luis Martinez and Malcolm Neal, agreed to Snapchat's terms of service — including a requirement that all disputes be settled through arbitration.”A valid arbitration agreement exists, and it encompasses this dispute,” Snapchat writes in papers filed this week with US District Court Judge Stephen Wilson in Los Angeles.In July, the popular encrypted chat app became the latest tech firm to face legal action under the Illinois Biometric Information Usage Law.Plaintiffs have filed a lawsuit against Snapchat stating that an avatar generation feature it developed called Lenses collects biometric data without prior permission. The suit claims Snapchat collects biometric information when users take photos of themselves using the Lenses feature, which identifies the size and shape of a user's face and overlays animations like bunny ears or a beard.Martinez and Neal alleged in a potential class-action that Snapchat scans users' faces each time they use Lenses, and then stores information about people's face geometry.Snapchat denies that Lenses uses facial recognition technology. “Instead, it uses object recognition technology, which allows Lenses to identify a nose as a nose or an eye as an eye, but does not — and cannot — identify a nose or an eye, let alone a whole face, as belonging to any specific person,” the company wrote in court papers.Google and Facebook also are defending themselves from similar accusations related to the Illinois law.

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