The Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, enacted in 2008, was designed to provide individuals with control over their biometric information and to establish standards for.
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On February 17, 2023, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that violations of the Biometric Information Privacy Act ("BIPA") (the country's first biometric privacy legislation) accrue for each incident of capture or dissemination of biometric information, and not only once for each data subject.
On February 2, 2023, the Illinois Supreme Court weighed in and answered a question that had previously remained uncertain and hotly contested in recent years: how long is the statute of.
Illinois Supreme Court clarified that five-year statute of limitations is applicable to all Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act claims. Ruling in Tims, et al. v. Black Horse Carriers, Inc. does not address the critical question of when claims accrue under the Act.