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Illinois has the strictest biometric privacy law in the country with the Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”). The BIPA requires employers who collect employees’ biometric data to...

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Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act 740 ILCS 14 1 et seq. imposed severe penalties businesses collecting fingerprints, face scans, voiceprints, or other biometric data without required consent. BIPA consumer class actions yielding hundreds of millions in settlements

Since its adoption in 2008, the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, (“BIPA”), 740 ILCS 14/1, et seq., has imposed severe penalties—$1,000 per negligent violation and $5,000 per...

February brought big changes to the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”) litigation landscape. On the heels of a catastrophic 228 million dollar jury verdict against...

On February 17, 2023, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that violations of the Biometric Information Privacy Act ("BIPA") (the country's first biometric privacy legislation) accrue for each incident of capture or dissemination of biometric information, and not only once for each data subject.

Illinois Supreme Court issued an opinion in Cothron v. White Castle Systems, Inc., ruled Biometric Privacy Act BIPA shows that a claim accrues under BIPA with every scan or transmission of biometric identifiers or biometric information without prior informed consent.

A separate claim under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act BIPA accrues each time entity scans or transmits individual’s biometric identifier or biometric information, divided Illinois Supreme Court ruled in long-awaited decision. Cothron v. White Castle Systems.

A separate claim under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) accrues each time an entity scans or transmits an individual’s biometric identifier or biometric information, a...

A split Illinois Supreme Court issued on Friday another long-awaited decision interpreting the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), holding that a separate BIPA violation...