Illinois Adopts Business-Favorable Amendment to Biometric Information Privacy Act

The Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”) has posed significant litigation risk to businesses collecting biometric information since its adoption in 2008. Last year, an Illinois Supreme Court decision magnified that risk by holding that a BIPA violation accrues each time biometric information is collected or disclosed without consent.  That holding, coupled with the law’s liquidated damages provision, created the prospect of ruinous damages awards in cases involving recurring…
By: Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP