Is Your Company Using Or Selling Biometric Technology? BIPA Explained In 2 Minutes (Video)

In these latest series of blog posts focusing on privacy litigation trends, we discuss four key privacy laws that will impact U.S.-based companies in 2020-2021. Corporate leaders, business owners, and HR professionals should be aware of these state-specific laws, which protect the privacy rights of consumers or employees, and which will be making significant waves in the privacy litigation arena. These laws are especially relevant for companies seeking to employ Ai technology, including the AIVIA-a unique new law, which we previously discussed here.

This time, we focus on the Biometric Information Privacy Act ("BIPA"). This law is especially critical, as it has generated an onslaught of privacy class actions in the last few years. BIPA prohibits the unlawful collection and storing of biometric information and has very strict requirements. It broadly defines "biometric information" to include retina scans, iris scans, fingerprints, palm prints, voice