The Illinois legislature has been surging with new legislation the past couple of months. Among the flurry of laws created in what has been described as the most momentous legislative session in decades is a privacy statute that regulates an ever-growing issue in HR: the use of artificial intelligence, or “AI,” in the hiring process.
Over the last few years, an increased focus continues on the right to privacy and the debate on how to best implement privacy tools that are balanced with business and technological innovation. In the United States, the debate to adopt policies like those in the European Union has recently intensified as consumer advocates view data
In the last few years, the right to privacy debate in the United States has increased in pace and volume. One issue at the center of this long debate is how best to implement the right privacy tools in a manner that does not disrupt business and technological innovation. The current criticisms fail to appreciate
Illinois’ Biometric Information Protection Act (“BIPA”) requires entities collecting, using, and storing biometric data (such as face scans, retina scans, and fingerprint scans) to, among other things, inform and obtain consent from the owners of the data. Private entities storing an individual’s biometric information must also use a “reasonable standard of care” and treat the
In November, we identified an emerging trend involving Article III standing in cases brought under Illinois’ Biometric Information Protection Act (“BIPA”). The Northern District of California’s recent decision in Patel v. Facebook Inc., No. 3:15-cv-03747-JD, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 30727 (N.D. Cal. Feb. 26, 2018), denying Facebook’s motion to dismiss for lack of
In the last few years, the right to privacy has been hotly debated in the United States. What critics do not understand or appreciate is that the next technological paradigm is completely dependent on improvements both to the quality and quantity of data.
As connected things (IoT) explode in popularity, they make things such as
The recent onslaught of putative class actions alleging violations of Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”), codified at 740 ILCS 14/1 et. seq., has left many Illinois companies scrambling to find answers (and defense lawyers).
While BIPA putative class actions have been filed against web-based companies like Shutterfly, Google, and Facebook, more recently it has