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Students Accuse Testing Site ProctorU Of Breaching BIPA
Law360 (March 15, 2021, 7:36 PM EDT) A group of Illinois students has alleged that online testing platform ProctorU Inc. breached the state s Biometric Information Privacy Act by not taking reasonable steps to secure the safety of facial scan data it collected to monitor students during remote exams.
In a proposed class action filed Friday in Illinois federal court, students Rutvik Thakkar, William Gonigam and Andrea Kohlenberg claim that ProctorU which has become more popular as schools move to remote learning amid the COVID-19 pandemic violated BIPA by failing to stop students data from being stolen and offered for sale on an online forum for hackers in July..
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This week, an Illinois House Judiciary Committee advanced House
Bill 559, which would require potential plaintiffs to give
employers a 30-day opportunity to cure alleged violations of the
Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) prior to filing a lawsuit.
BIPA, passed in 2008, regulates the collection and use of biometric
information. As it currently stands, no actual injury is required
to bring a BIPA lawsuit, which means plaintiffs can collect
$1,000-$5,000 in liquidated damages per violation if the defendant
fails to comply with BIPA s technical provisions, which, at a
Lawmakers from both parties told officials from Gov. JB Pritzker’s administration on Thursday, March 11 that the General Assembly should have some say in how the state spends the $7.5 billion in federal funds that Illinois expects to receive from the newly-enacted American Rescue Plan.
Those comments came during a virtual hearing of the House Revenue and Finance Committee that took place just hours after President Joe Biden signed the $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill into law.
“I think the legislature would like a say in appropriating money, given our role,” Rep. Michael Zalewski, D-Riverside, said to the director of the Governor’s Office of Management and Budget, Alexis Sturm. “So my hope is that you could convey that to the governor’s office and we can develop a framework to work together on that.”
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