Biometric Information, GINA, Data Privacy

The EEOC’s New Guidance on Wearable Tech: What Employers Need to Know

Conn Maciel Carey LLP on 2/10/2025

Last year, many of our clients began asking us about the feasibility of requiring or, at the very least, providing their employees with the option of using “wearable technology” in the workplace. As wearable technologies...more

Can GIPA be the new BIPA?

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 8/22/2024

There’s a new wave of class action lawsuits hitting Illinois employers, based on a law that has been under the radar for more than 25 years: The Genetic Information Privacy Act, also known as GIPA. Passed in 1998, GIPA...more

Privacy Versus Cyber – What is the Bigger Risk?

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 4/11/2024

“Cybersecurity” has emerged as one of top risks facing organizations. Considering the steady stream of massive data breaches affecting millions (sometimes billions), the debilitating effects of ransomware on an organization’s...more

GIPA: The Next Big Thing in Privacy Class Actions Against Illinois Employers

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 11/2/2023

Seyfarth Synopsis: While the plaintiffs’ bar has aggressively pursued class actions under the Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”) in recent years, these cases soon may be rivaled by the influx of class actions brought...more

Significantly Amended Colorado Privacy Act Passes Out Of Senate Committee

Husch Blackwell LLP on 5/13/2021

Keypoint: The Colorado Privacy Act passed unanimously out of committee last week but not before lawmakers revised many of its pro-consumer provisions to pro-business. On May 5, 2021, the Colorado Senate Business, Labor &...more

You Have Heard Of The BIPA, But What About The GIPA?

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 2/9/2021

Enacted in 2008, the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, 740 ILCS 14 et seq. (the “BIPA”), went largely unnoticed until a few years ago when a handful of cases sparked a flood of class action litigation over the...more