Most Illinois Biometric Privacy Suits Hit Employers, Study Finds

States considering enacting biometric privacy legislation should be “wary” of following Illinois’ example, which has exposed businesses to massive costs, a new study shared exclusively with Bloomberg Law concludes.

Employers using biometric timekeeping technology are especially at risk of litigation under the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act, according to the analysis of 296 federal and 381 state court filings released Wednesday by the Chamber of Progress. It found 88% of the BIPA litigation arose from employer-employee disputes over biometric timekeeping.

The big tech industry group’s study is one of only a handful so far to examine BIPA cases en masse, ...