Covers laws and regulations governing the collection, use, storage, sharing, and security of biometric identifiers and data (e.g., fingerprints, facial recognition, voiceprints, iris scans). Includes compliance and litigation issues such as consent and notice, retention policies, vendor contracting, workplace and consumer uses, surveillance restrictions, data breaches, and privacy and civil rights impacts.
Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) allows statutory damages of $1,000 per negligent violation or $5,000 per reckless/intentional violation—plus attorneys’ fees—making fingerprint time clocks in Chicago a high-risk compliance area. Chicago employers often deploy biometric timekeeping for wage-and-hour accuracy, but BIPA imposes strict notice, consent, retention, and security duties. This article explains how to implement […]
In the Facebook Illinois BIPA class action, eligible claimants received average payouts of about $18,000 per person from a $650 million settlement. The case alleged Facebook collected and used facial recognition biometric data without proper notice and consent under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act. This article explains how BIPA works, who qualified, and what similar […]
