On September 13, 2024, the Colorado Attorney General’s (AG) Office published proposed draft amendments to the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA) Rules. The proposals include new requirements related to biometric collection and use...more
On November 30, 2023, the Illinois Supreme Court unanimously held in Mosby et al. v. The Ingalls Memorial Hospital et al. that when biometrics of healthcare employees are collected in the course of providing medical services,...more
12/5/2023
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Biometric Information Privacy Act ,
Data Collection ,
Fingerprints ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Healthcare ,
IL Supreme Court ,
Illinois ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Privacy Laws ,
State Privacy Laws ,
Technology
On July 18, 2023, the Illinois Supreme Court denied a petition for rehearing in Cothron v. White Castle System, Inc., 2023 IL 128004. The denial comes five months after the Illinois Supreme Court ruled that claims accrue...more
7/25/2023
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Biometric Information Privacy Act ,
Damages ,
Data Collection ,
Disclosure ,
Employees ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Litigation ,
IL Supreme Court ,
Illinois ,
Privacy Acts ,
State Privacy Laws
In a country that is still struggling with an opioid epidemic, and where there are enough rules and laws regulating the dispensing of medication to fill a tome, it makes sense that medical providers across the nation are...more
4/4/2023
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Biometric Information ,
Biometric Information Privacy Act ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Employees ,
Facial Recognition Technology ,
Fingerprints ,
Health Care Providers ,
Hospitals ,
Physicians ,
Policies and Procedures ,
Prescription Drugs ,
State and Local Government ,
State Privacy Laws
On February 17, 2023, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled in Cothron v. White Castle System, Inc., 2023 IL 128004, that claims accrue under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) each time data is collected and...more
On February 2, 2023, the Illinois Supreme Court held that all causes of action brought under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), 740 ILCS 14/1 et seq., are subject to a five-year statute of limitations....more
2022 has been a busy legislative year for privacy. Dozens of states considered consumer privacy bills, two states enacted privacy consumer bills and California released proposed California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)...more
8/30/2022
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Biometric Information Privacy Act ,
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Continuing Legal Education ,
COPPA ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Legislative Agendas ,
New Legislation ,
Privacy Laws ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Proposed Regulation ,
Proposed Rules ,
Rulemaking Process ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Webinars
When the Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) was enacted in 2008, the Illinois legislature sought to give consumers control of their own biometric data while still allowing room for the development and evolution of...more
On September 17, 2021, a panel of the Illinois Appellate Court for the First District issued a significant decision on the question of which statute of limitations apply to claims under the Illinois Biometric Information...more
9/22/2021
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Appellate Briefs ,
Biometric Information ,
Biometric Information Privacy Act ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Security ,
Illinois ,
Informed Consent ,
Rules of Civil Procedure ,
Statute of Limitations