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Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Passing the eye test - Defense strategies and the Biometric Information Privacy Act

As the use of biometric data continues to grow and become more prevalent across industries of all types and sizes, complying with data security and privacy laws has never been more critical or challenging. This is...more

Proskauer - Law and the Workplace

Ill. Supreme Court: BIPA Plaintiffs Are Not Required to Show Actual Harm To Have Standing

On January 25, 2019, in a closely watched case, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled that a plaintiff need not allege or demonstrate actual harm to have standing to pursue a claim under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy...more

Fisher Phillips

Illinois Supreme Court Clears Path For More Biometric Data Privacy Lawsuits

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The Illinois Supreme Court on January 25th, made it far easier for workers to bring suit against their employers for technical violations of the state’s biometric information privacy statute, putting employers on notice that...more

Vedder Price

BIPA ALERT: An Opening of the Litigation Floodgates?

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No Actual Harm Necessary to Assert Biometric Privacy Claims in Illinois - On January 25th, the Illinois Supreme Court held that an individual does not need to allege actual harm in order to seek liquidated damages and...more

Moore & Van Allen PLLC

Illinois Supreme Court Rules on Biometric Privacy Case

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On January 25th, the Illinois Supreme Court unanimously held that actual harm was not a necessary component of proving a breach of the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act. This ruling found that Stacy Rosenbach, the...more

Alston & Bird

Illinois Supreme Court Empowers Claims Under Biometric Information Privacy Act

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In an opinion issued Friday, the Illinois Supreme Court handed a potentially significant victory to plaintiffs advancing claims under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act and seeking statutory damages under that law. ...more

Amundsen Davis LLC

Illinois Supreme Court Rules Actual Damages, Injury Or Harm Not Necessary In Biometric Privacy Case

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As reported last November, the Illinois Supreme Court has had in front of it perhaps the seminal case, Rosenbach v. Six Flags Entertainment Corp., regarding Illinois’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). Prior to...more

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

Illinois Appellate Court Reinstates Biometric Privacy Action, Finding Potential Harm in Alleged Disclosure of Fingerprint to...

Late last month, an Illinois appellate court reversed a lower court’s dismissal of biometric privacy claims against a tanning salon franchisee that had collected the plaintiff’s fingerprint to allow entry in its own salon and...more

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

Illinois Biometric Privacy Suit over Employee Fingerprinting Remanded for Lack of Standing

An Illinois district court remanded to state court for lack of standing a biometric privacy suit brought by employees over the collection and storage of individuals’ fingerprints allegedly in violation of the Illinois...more

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