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In Rayome v. ABT Electronics, 2024 WL 1435098 (N.D. Ill. Apr. 3, 2024), the court wrote that “it would be in the parties’ interest to reach a negotiated result. It should not be...

(The Center Square) – The Illinois Supreme Court is weighing a case that a former White Castle manager filed against the restaurant chain over an alleged violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, or BIPA. ...

WBGZ Radio 4/14/2021 | By Cole Lauterbach - Illinois Radio Network Illinois lawmakers are looking at ways to change their state’s biometric privacy law after complaints from businesses and hundreds of lawsuits.  Members of the Senate Judiciary’s subcommittee on privacy met Monday to hear arguments on Senate Bill 300.  Sponsored by Sen. Jason Barickman, R-Bloomington, the bill would give an entity 30 days to correct a potential infraction of the Biometric Information Privacy Act before a...

Members of the Senate Judiciary’s subcommittee on privacy met Monday to hear arguments on  Sponsored by Sen. Jason Barickman, R-Bloomington, the bill would give an entity 30 days to correct a potential infraction of the Biometric Information Privacy Act before a person could file a lawsuit against them unless there was a breach of the information. It would also give legal protection to companies that store biometric information in the form of algorithms. If accessed by a hacker, those groups...

by Cole Lauterbach, The Center Square  | April 13, 2021 09:00 AM Print this article Illinois lawmakers are looking at ways to change their state’s biometric privacy law after complaints from businesses and hundreds of lawsuits. Members of the Senate Judiciary’s subcommittee on privacy met Monday to hear arguments on Senate Bill 300. Sponsored by Sen. Jason Barickman, R-Bloomington, the bill would give an entity 30 days to correct a potential infraction o...