Washington recently became the third state to pass a statute regulating the commercial use of biometric identifiers. The growing trend of state biometric privacy legislation began in 2008, when Illinois enacted the Bio-metric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). Shortly afterwards, Texas passed a similar statute. Since then, Alaska, Connecticut, Montana, and New Hampshire have considered enacting their own biometric privacy bills.

Originally published in Bloomberg BNA Privacy Law Watch, 17 PRA 198, 10/16/2017 - October 16th, 2017.