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Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA)

The Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) requires organizations to acquire consent prior to collecting a person’s biometric data for commercial purposes.

 

AID2entry & BIPABUZZ “BIPA Turns 16… What’s Next?”

BIPABuzz Chicago, IL October 11, 2024 – 9am-4pm CDT Join this special event celebrating BIPA’s 16th birthday and discussing what’s…

 

Are current regulations adequate for ensuring the security of wearable data?

Wearables are common in consumer circles and growing in commercial applications like health care. This shift is largely positive, as…

 

VTO tool liability defense rejection underscores uncertainty and risk in BIPA litigation

By David J. Oberly, Biometric Privacy & Data Privacy Attorney For almost four years now, online retailers that utilize virtual…

 

Data boom in automotive industry elicits lawsuits, prototypes, grousing

Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) strikes again, with a newly proposed class action lawsuit alleging that fleet management software…

 

Steak ‘n Shake face pay kiosks from PopID draw BIPA class action

Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) has another notch in its litigation belt, this time in the form of a…

 

Illinois heads off a cruel precedent for biometric data privacy damages

Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) has been officially amended, with Governor J.B. Pritzker signing the changes into law on…

 

Samsung gets one biometric data privacy case back into court, another dismissed

Samsung has defeated a ruling that would have compelled it to go through mass arbitration over allegations of biometric data…

 

Google settles over kids biometric data collection in schools

Google and the parents of an Illinois girl who sued (H.K. et al. v. Google LLC) the tech giant in…

 

Scope and contours of BIPA biometric ‘identifiers’ and ‘information’

By David J. Oberly, Biometric Privacy & Data Privacy Attorney One of the most significant unsettled issues in Illinois Biometric…

 

BIPA suit against X Corp. killed as judge hashes out ‘biometric identifiers’

The question of whether photos collected by social media sites constitute biometric data has another answer, this one from an…

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