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Year In Review: 2023 BIPA Litigation Takeaways

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This post is part of a series of articles we are doing on 2023 data protection litigation trends. Since its enactment in 2008, Illinois’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) has produced a wave of privacy-related...more

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First Ever BIPA Trial Results in a $228 million Judgement Against Railway Company that Relied on Third Party Vendor to Collect...

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The judgement, which came down last week, exemplifies the risk of biometric information collection in Illinois and the risk that can result from relying solely on third party vendors. On October 12, 2022, a jury found...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

New York Proposes Biometric Privacy Act With Private Right of Action

On January 6, 2021, a bipartisan group of New York State lawmakers introduced Assembly Bill 27, the latest version of proposed privacy legislation that would allow consumers to sue companies for improperly using or retaining...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

The Potential For Stemming BIPA Suits Waits Another Day

In the aftermath of the Illinois Supreme Court’s Rosenbach decision, Illinois employers have faced a wave of class action litigation filed under the Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”). Employers hoping for relief from...more

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OnRisk: Biometric Insurance

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Issues of digital privacy are multi-faceted and extend far beyond the now-routine data breaches that make headlines. The digital collection, use, and storage of biometric information (fingerprints, retinal or iris scans,...more

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Collection of Biometric Data Raises Privacy Concerns for Employees and Compliance Issues for Employers

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Many of us have become comfortable with the convenience of logging into our laptops or smartphones using a fingerprint scan in lieu of remembering yet another password. We are familiar with television and movie portrayals of...more

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Illinois’ BIPA statute – Finally Some Good News for Employers

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Seyfarth Synopsis: As the number of class action lawsuits alleging violations of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”) has exploded in the last six months, defendants have been eagerly awaiting guidance...more

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A New Employment Law Frontier: Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act

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An emerging area of the law has become the focal point in a new class action lawsuit pending in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. In Baron v. Roundy's Supermarkets, Inc., et al. (No....more

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