Quebec is weeks away from major biometrics changes for employers
September 22 is coming quickly for Quebec employers. That is the day when the Canadian province’s biometric information guidelines go…
Workforce Management
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BNSF Rail asks to settle or retry its BIPA damage award
The defendant in one of the highest profile biometric privacy cases in the United States may want out of the…
Israel issues draft guidelines on biometric data collection in the workplace
Israel’s privacy watchdog has published a draft document outlining guidelines and rules organizations and businesses should keep in mind when…
Historic penalty decision in BIPA case shows the need to take biometric privacy seriously
Biometrics in one U.S. jurisdiction is now officially a live electrical wire dancing on the ground, ready to shock the…
Insurance liability under Illinois’ biometric data privacy law gets another look
Insurers are on the hook to defend separate defendants accused breaking the U.S. state of Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act….
Do-over for damages in $228M biometric data privacy suit, maybe not for the law itself
BNSF Railway will get a chance to alter the $228 million awarded in a judgement of class action damages granted…
Legal wrangling over legal wrangling in 3 US biometric privacy cases
Three U.S. biometric privacy court cases are in the news, although they are about how to handle the cases, not…
Opposition gathers but biometric privacy laws grow
Forces for and against biometric information protection laws in the United States remain stalemated in a position that favors proponents…
US FTC posts 6-point biometrics policy to protect consumers
United States federal regulators have put businesses on notice about the sins of commission and omission that mostly likely spark…
Analyzing the impact of the BIPA claim accrual decision
By David J. Oberly, Biometric Privacy & Data Privacy Attorney On February 17, 2023, the Illinois Supreme Court definitively resolved…
