Nine Republicans joined Democrats in the House supermajority to pass the measure in an 81-30 vote. The bill’s next stop is to Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s desk for his consideration.
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The law, considered among the strictest of its kind, requires companies to gain consent before they collect and store biometric information such as fingerprints or retina scans.
Regulators have spent years trying to make big tech companies pay for the ways they harvest and, at times, abuse users data. One state, meanwhile, is literally making them pay
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