The Illinois Supreme Court last week declined to revisit a previous decision that a company can be held liable for every biometric scan it conducts on anyone without their consent or without advising the subject how the data collected will be managed. The state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act, passed in 2008, mandates that businesses wanting to use the biometrics of Illinois residents take special care of the data, which is a person’s only irreplaceable identifiers. https://www.activistpost.com/2023/07/historic-penalty-decision-in-bipa-case-shows-the-need-to-take-biometric-privacy-seriously.html