WhileBIPA is specific to Illinois, it is just the tip of the iceberg,representing a larger movement across the country to shore upprivacy laws at the state-level. (Photo: Shutterstock)
In January 2019, the Illinois Supreme Court upheld consumers' rights to sue companies forcollecting their fingerprints without explicit consent. Thisprecedent-setting case, Rosenbach v. Six Flags Entertainment Corp,was the first to extend the interpretation of the IllinoisBiometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) holding that individualsdo not need to prove they were actually harmed by the misuse oftheir biometric information—only that their rightsunder the law were violated.
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