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Podcast: BIPA Trends in 2022
Data Privacy Legislation, Part 2 (and bonus tips on teleworking from two law mamas who feel your pain!)
5 Key Takeaways | Biometrics: Identifying and Mitigating Legal Risks
Colorado AG Releases Revisions to Draft Colorado Privacy Act Rules - The Colorado Attorney General’s Office released the second version of its proposed amendments to the Colorado Privacy Act rules. This round of revisions...more
Last April, the Supreme Court of Illinois found that a claim under the Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”) accrues each time a private entity collects or disseminates a biometric identifier or biometric information. ...more
Recently, the Illinois General Assembly have restarted efforts to amend the Biometric Information Privacy Act of 2008 (“the Act”). On January 31, 2024, Senator Bill Cunningham introduced S.B. 2979 ostensibly to answer the...more
Florida Introduces BIPA Legislation - A Florida state senator has introduced an identical version of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA)....more
Last December, we noted the continuing robust wave of Illinois biometric privacy suits. At that time, dozens of suits had been filed in Illinois state court against Illinois-based employers and other businesses alleging...more
We have written before about the issues presented by the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, 740 Ill. Comp Stat. 14/1 (“BIPA”). BIPA is still the only state biometric privacy statute with a private right of action. It...more
On May 26, 2016, Illinois Senator Terry Link filed a proposed amendment to the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act that would presumably ease the rules relating to the collection and use of biometric data. What irked...more