Businesses operating in Illinois are hoping a new law to rein in astronomical damages for violations of a flagship biometric privacy statute will stem a wave of class actions and stop insurers’ push to deny coverage for the claims.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) on Aug. 2 signed S.B. 2979, amending the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act to curb the amounts of damages plaintiffs can claim for violations.
The change, which was effective immediately, defines the repeated collection of the same biometric data without consent as a single, collective violation. That’s a significant pivot from the precedent set by the ...
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